anche
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,392
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
anche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Languette mobile qui ouvre et ferme alternativement le passage de l’air dans un tuyau, où on la fait vibrer. Pronounced \ɑ̃ʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for anche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,392 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for anche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 anche, spelled A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Languette mobile qui ouvre et ferme alternativement le passage de l’air dans un tuyau, où on la fait vibrer.
- 2Demi-tuyau de cuivre pour l’orgue.
- 3Conduit par lequel la farine tombe du moulin dans la huche.
- 4Sorte de robinet de bois d'un tonneau, cannelle.
- 5Sorte de robinet de bois d'un tonneau, cannelle.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #54,392 in French
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