âne
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,577
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
âne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère robuste de la famille des équidés, plus petit que le cheval mais qui possède de plus longues oreilles. Son petit est l’ânon. Son cri est le braiment (du verbe braire). Le croisement d’un ... Pronounced \an\. It ranks #9,577 in French word frequency. Often confused with au and As.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | âne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \an\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for âne is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \an\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,577 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for âne in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 âne, spelled Â-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère robuste de la famille des équidés, plus petit que le cheval mais qui possède de plus longues oreilles. Son petit est l’ânon. Son cri est le braiment (du verbe braire). Le croisement d’un âne avec une jument donne un mulet ; le croisement d’un cheval avec une ânesse donne un bardot.
- 2Personne à l’esprit lourd et grossier, d’une grande ignorance.
- 3Étau d’ébéniste, aussi nommé esteau.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom. Il est généralement représenté de profil et passant.
- 5Désigne une personne cuistre, ou ignorante et sotte.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #9,577 in French
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