Anatoly
The verdict
“Anatoly” is uncommon French (frequency #74,550 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,550
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anatoly · Anatoly · French
Anatoly · rank #74,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,550
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anat
Nearest frequency peer: anat (-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 « Anatoly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- améliora
améliora
25,454 corpus weight
- américanisme
américanisme
25,453 corpus weight
- anat
anat
25,452 corpus weight
- Anatoly
Anatoly
25,451 corpus weight
- anesthésist…
anesthésistes
25,450 corpus weight
- Antonetti
Antonetti
25,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Anatoly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anatoly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Anatoly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Anatoly is uncommon French at frequency #74,550 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Anatoly, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Anatoly, spelled A-N-A-T-O-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Anatoly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dirigeants libéraux — Yegor Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov, Anatoly Tchoubaïs, Boris Fedorov, mais aussi Alexandre Yakovlev — ne peuvent que se rallier au consensus anti-OTAN.
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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