aan

\aan\

/\aan\/ pron

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The verdict

“aan” is uncommon French (frequency #51,243 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,243
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Je.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aan · aan · French

aan · rank #51,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,243
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Abdoul

Nearest frequency peer: Abdoul (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « aan »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aan
PropertyValue
Headwordaan
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPronoun
IPA\aan\
Letters3
Frequency rank#51,243
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aan » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.aantombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Abdoul » (#51,244), « abordait » (#51,245), « acouphènes » (#51,246). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aan » est au #51,243. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aan is uncommon French at frequency #51,243 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \aan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Je.".

aan has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aan, spelled A-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Je.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aan"?
"aan" is spelled A-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \aan\.
What does "aan" mean?
As a pronoun, "aan" means: Je.
How do you pronounce "aan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aan" is \aan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aan" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aan", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bau#51,301bib#51,306TDS#51,175BPM#51,319

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list