anchor
\ˈæŋ.kə\
The verdict
“anchor” is uncommon French (frequency #79,047 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,047
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anchor · anchor · French
anchor · rank #79,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anches
Nearest frequency peer: anches (-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 « anchor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aménageant
aménageant
20,957 corpus weight
- américanisa…
américanisation
20,956 corpus weight
- anches
anches
20,955 corpus weight
- anchor
anchor
20,954 corpus weight
- animalières
animalières
20,953 corpus weight
- antihistami…
antihistaminiques
20,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anchor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anchor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈæŋ.kə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anchor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anchor is uncommon French at frequency #79,047 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈæŋ.kə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for anchor in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is anchor, spelled A-N-C-H-O-R.
Definition
- 1Ancre.
- 2Présentateur de journal télévisé.
- 3Tirant (d'ancrage).
- 4Ancre.
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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