anecdote
\a.nɛk.dɔt\
The verdict
“anecdote” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,954
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Particularité historique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anecdote · anecdote · French
anecdote · rank #9,954 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,954
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annales
Nearest frequency peer: annales (+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 « anecdote »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ab
ab
90,050 corpus weight
- abandonnés
abandonnés
90,049 corpus weight
- anecdote
anecdote
90,047 corpus weight
- annales
annales
90,046 corpus weight
- apercevoir
apercevoir
90,045 corpus weight
- appliquées
appliquées
90,044 corpus weight
What this shows « anecdote » 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 | anecdote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɛk.dɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anecdote »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around anecdote (IPA \a.nɛk.dɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,954 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for anecdote, with forms such as "aencdote", "ancedote", and "aneccdote". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "antidote", "anecdotes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is anecdote, spelled A-N-E-C-D-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Particularité historique.
- 2Récit d’un petit fait curieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anecdote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l’anecdote, la plus ancienne étymologie latine du mot, satura, signifiait « macédoine de légumes ». Sans aucun rapport avec la choucroute, mais avec la farce, le mot a ensuite désigné une danse parodique, une pièce dramatique, puis à l'époque classique un poème servant à dénoncer les travers de la société.
Elle sait beaucoup d’anecdotes sur les personnes de distinction qui habitent Paris. Et lorsqu’elle les conte, elle fait comme mon cuisinier Pampaloni quand il sert les œufs sur le plat : il ne les sale pas, mais il met la salière à côté. La langue de Mme Marmet est très douce. Le sel est à côté, dans ses yeux. C’est le plat de Pampaloni, my love : chacun…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aencdote
- ancedote
- aneccdote
- anecddote
- anecdoet
- anecdotte
- anecdtoe
- anecodte
- anedcote
- annecdote
- naecdote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anecdote - 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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