an
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#363
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
an is aFrenchnoun. It means: Temps que met la Terre à accomplir une révolution autour du Soleil et qui se divise en douze mois. Année (voir Notes plus bas). Pronounced \ɑ̃\. It ranks #363 in French word frequency. Often confused with au and As.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | an |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for an is 2 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #363 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for an in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is an, spelled A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Temps que met la Terre à accomplir une révolution autour du Soleil et qui se divise en douze mois. Année (voir Notes plus bas).
- 2L'une des années du calendrier républicain des Français, commencée le 22 septembre 1792.
- 3Le temps qui passe.
- 4Période de révolution d’une autre planète.
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Frequency rank: #363 in French
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