anachorète
\a.na.kɔ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“anachorète” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Religieux qui se retire dans la solitude pour mener une vie de contemplation et de pénitence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anachorète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.na.kɔ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anachorète” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
anachorète is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.na.kɔ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for anachorète, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 anachorète, spelled A-N-A-C-H-O-R-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Religieux qui se retire dans la solitude pour mener une vie de contemplation et de pénitence.
- 2Personne qui mène, loin du monde et de son agitation, une vie austère et vertueuse.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “anachorète”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-N-A-C-H-O-R-È-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.na.kɔ.ʁɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.