ancrent
\ɑ̃kʁ\
The verdict
“ancrent” is uncommon French (frequency #99,856 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,856
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe ancrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ancrent · ancrent · French
ancrent · rank #99,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,856
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aménagent
Nearest frequency peer: aménagent (-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 « ancrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amuseront
amuseront
148 corpus weight
- amènerai
amènerai
147 corpus weight
- aménagent
aménagent
146 corpus weight
- ancrent
ancrent
145 corpus weight
- angely
angely
143 corpus weight
- anguleuse
anguleuse
142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ancrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ancrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃kʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ancrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ancrent is uncommon French at frequency #99,856 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃kʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ancrent has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ancrent, spelled A-N-C-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe ancrer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe ancrer.
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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