Ancenis
\ɑ̃s.ni\
The verdict
“Ancenis” is uncommon French (frequency #59,786 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,786
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique intégrée à la commune de Ancenis-Saint-Géréon le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2019.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ancenis · Ancenis · French
Ancenis · rank #59,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,786
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH améliorait
Nearest frequency peer: améliorait (-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 « Ancenis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amico
amico
40,218 corpus weight
- amoché
amoché
40,217 corpus weight
- améliorait
améliorait
40,216 corpus weight
- Ancenis
Ancenis
40,215 corpus weight
- Andrade
Andrade
40,214 corpus weight
- appelèrent
appelèrent
40,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ancenis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ancenis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃s.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ancenis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ancenis is uncommon French at frequency #59,786 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɑ̃s.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique intégrée à la commune de Ancenis-Saint-Géréon le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2019.".
Ancenis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is Ancenis, spelled A-N-C-E-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique intégrée à la commune de Ancenis-Saint-Géréon le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2019.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ancenis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes ces troupes furent réunies à Nantes, afin de préparer une attaque contre Ancenis, où venaient d’entrer des forces considérables conduites par L’Escun, le principal agent du parti français en Bretagne, et par les sires de La Hunaudaye, de Molac et de Tyvarlen.
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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