anacrouse
French, noun/a.na.kʁuz/
anacrouse is spelled A-N-A-C-R-O-U-S-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anacrouse is a French feminine noun meaning “anacrusis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Note ou groupe de notes faibles se trouvant avant la première mesure, c’est-à-dire avant le premier temps…”.
What does anacrouse mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanacrusis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Note ou groupe de notes faibles se trouvant avant la première mesure, c’est-à-dire avant le premier temps fort. 2. Syllabe du début d'un vers, mais qui ne compte pas dans la mesure de celui-ci.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anacrouse
- anacrouses plural
- anacruse
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anacrouse?
- /a.na.kʁuz/
- \a.na.kʁuz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anacrouse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anacrouse in French?
anacrouse appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).