anagnoste
\a.na.ɡnɔst\
The verdict
“anagnoste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esclave qui, chez les riches Romains, faisait la lecture pendant le repas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anagnoste · anagnoste · French
anagnoste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anagnoste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.na.ɡnɔst\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
anagnoste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.na.ɡnɔst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Esclave qui, chez les riches Romains, faisait la lecture pendant le repas.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for anagnoste in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is anagnoste, spelled A-N-A-G-N-O-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Esclave qui, chez les riches Romains, faisait la lecture pendant le repas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anagnoste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est certainement ce trait de caractère qui avait frappé PLATON, chez son élève ARISTOTE, jusqu’à lui prêter le sobriquet d’anagnoste (le liseur). On reconnaît toute l’ironie de Platon dans le choix de ce terme, puisqu’un anagnoste était, le plus souvent, un esclave qui faisait lecture à un aristocrate athénien. En effet, les Athéniens, y compris les phi…
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