ânerie
\ɑn.ʁi\
The verdict
“ânerie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,491 among 14 “” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,491
- frequency rank, French
- 14
- “” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande ignorance de ce qu’on devrait savoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anerie · ânerie · French
ânerie · rank #60,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,491
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 14
- PHOTO-FINISH zouave
Nearest frequency peer: zouave (-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 « ânerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zadig
zadig
39,513 corpus weight
- Zohra
Zohra
39,512 corpus weight
- zouave
zouave
39,511 corpus weight
- ânerie
ânerie
39,510 corpus weight
- échauffent
échauffent
39,509 corpus weight
- échouant
échouant
39,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ânerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ânerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑn.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ânerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ânerie is uncommon French at frequency #60,491 among 14 “” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑn.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ânerie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ânerie, spelled Â-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Grande ignorance de ce qu’on devrait savoir.
- 2Faute commise par l’effet de cette ignorance.
- 3Étable pour les ânes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ânerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; la confiance que les hommes du XVIIIᵉ siècle avaient dans les capacités industrielles de l'État, paraît puérile à toutes les personnes qui ont étudié la production ailleurs que dans les insipides bouquins des sociologues; ceux-ci conservent encore fort soigneusement le culte des âneries du temps passé; […].
On reste bouche bée devant tant d’âneries. Mais ce sont à peu de choses près les mêmes âneries qui ont été proférées par Trump lui-même, il y a encore quelques jours.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).