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ANU

adjective

ANU is an adjective meaning “Initialism of airplane nose up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-U, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does ANU mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Initialism of airplane nose up.

noun

as añu
  1. 1

    A crop grown in the Andes (Tropaeolum tuberosum).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ANU

  • anyu
  • more ANU comparative
  • most ANU superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ANU?

ANU appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does ANU come from?

añu (quechua)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).