ananas
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,847
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
ananas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Non usuel de Ananas comosus plante herbacée acaule, tropicale, originaire d’Amérique Centrale, de la famille des Bromeliaceae (Broméliacées), dont il existe de nombreux cultivars ; les feuilles épa... Pronounced \a.na.nas\. Often confused with Anna and Anas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ananas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.na.nas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ananas is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.na.nas\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,847 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ananas, with forms such as "aannas", "anaans", and "ananass". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Anna", "Anas", "ayants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ananas, spelled A-N-A-N-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Non usuel de Ananas comosus plante herbacée acaule, tropicale, originaire d’Amérique Centrale, de la famille des Bromeliaceae (Broméliacées), dont il existe de nombreux cultivars ; les feuilles épaisses, sessiles, étroitement imbriquées et munies de piquants parfois acérés forment une rosette.
- 2Syncarpe charnu comestible de cette plante de forme conique à la peau écailleuse et épaisse et à la chair jaune et sucrée.
- 3Mine explosive de fabrication britannique, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
- 4Textile fabriqué à partir des fibres des feuilles de Bromelia pinguin, Bromelia karatas et de divers autres plantes du genre Bromelia qui sont de la familles des Bromeliaceae comme Ananas comosus qui fourni le fruit comestible éponyme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aannas,anaans,ananass,anannas,anansa,annaas,annanas,naanas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ananas"
Frequency rank: #14,847 in French
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