anchois
\ɑ̃.ʃwa\
The verdict
“anchois” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des espèces de petits poissons de mer au corps élancé, mince, à mâchoire supérieure proéminente, que l’on mange ordinairement en hors-d’œuvre, normalement de la famille des engraulidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anchois · anchois · French
anchois · rank #34,404 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,404
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Andres
Nearest frequency peer: Andres (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « anchois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aléatoireme…
aléatoirement
65,600 corpus weight
- ambitionne
ambitionne
65,599 corpus weight
- anchois
anchois
65,597 corpus weight
- Andres
Andres
65,596 corpus weight
- angry
angry
65,595 corpus weight
- annotations
annotations
65,594 corpus weight
What this shows « anchois » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anchois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʃwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anchois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around anchois (IPA \ɑ̃.ʃwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,404 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Une des espèces de petits poissons de mer au corps élancé, mince, à mâchoire supérieure proéminente, que l’on mange ordinairement en hors-d’œuvre, normalement de la famille des engraulidés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for anchois, with forms such as "acnhois", "ancchois", and "anchhois". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "anglois", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 anchois, spelled A-N-C-H-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de petits poissons de mer au corps élancé, mince, à mâchoire supérieure proéminente, que l’on mange ordinairement en hors-d’œuvre, normalement de la famille des engraulidés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anchois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une salade d’anchois.
Prenez un anchois de Drontheim, rien n'est plus propre à ouvrir et préparer le tube digestif, organe des plus importants…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnhois
- ancchois
- anchhois
- anchios
- anchoiss
- anchosi
- ancohis
- anhcois
- annchois
- nachois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anchois - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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