anamorphose
\a.na.mɔʁ.foz\
The verdict
“anamorphose” is uncommon French (frequency #95,531 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,531
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déformation que produisent certains miroirs cylindriques des objets qui sont placés devant eux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anamorphose · anamorphose · French
anamorphose · rank #95,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,531
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amoris
Nearest frequency peer: amoris (-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 « anamorphose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Altona
Altona
4,475 corpus weight
- amide
amide
4,472 corpus weight
- amoris
amoris
4,471 corpus weight
- anamorphose
anamorphose
4,470 corpus weight
- Andries
Andries
4,467 corpus weight
- Angell
Angell
4,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anamorphose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anamorphose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.na.mɔʁ.foz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anamorphose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anamorphose is uncommon French at frequency #95,531 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.na.mɔʁ.foz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for anamorphose in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is anamorphose, spelled A-N-A-M-O-R-P-H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Déformation que produisent certains miroirs cylindriques des objets qui sont placés devant eux.
- 2Transformation géométrique des figures où les abscisses et les ordonnées en coordonnées cartésiennes, les rayons et les angles polaires, sont multipliés par des nombres différents.
- 3Changement qui déforme un végétal.
- 4Procédé spécial du dessin dans la fabrication des étoffes chinées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anamorphose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’anamorphose est un procédé habituel du gothique, fait pour créer un effet de terreur et qui, s’inscrivant dans un cadre culturel tourné vers l’ambigüité, abolit les frontières entre réel et imaginaire.
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This word in other languages
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.
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