anah

noun

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The verdict

“anah” is uncommon French (frequency #73,706 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,706
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjection servant à manifester la douleur, le manque de plaisir ou la dépréciation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-anah · anah · French

anah · rank #73,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,706
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH anachroniques

Nearest frequency peer: anachroniques (-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 « anah »

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 « anah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for anah
PropertyValue
Headwordanah
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#73,706
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « anah » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « anachroniques » (#73,705), « andine » (#73,707), « aménorrhée » (#73,704). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « anah » est au #73,706. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

anah is uncommon French at frequency #73,706 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interjection servant à manifester la douleur, le manque de plaisir ou la dépréciation.".

No misspelling variants are generated for anah in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is anah, spelled A-N-A-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Interjection servant à manifester la douleur, le manque de plaisir ou la dépréciation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how anah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Anah nowitka mikado halo shame.

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 "anah"?
"anah" is spelled A-N-A-H.
What does "anah" mean?
As a noun, "anah" means: Interjection servant à manifester la douleur, le manque de plaisir ou la dépréciation.
What language does "anah" come from?
"anah" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

alte#73,697Érik#73,670zijn#73,661zarb#73,659

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list