anesthésie générale
\a.nɛs.te.zi ʒe.ne.ʁal\
The verdict
“anesthésie générale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acte médical dont l’objectif principal est la suspension temporaire et réversible de la conscience et de la sensibilité douloureuse, généralement dans le cadre d’une intervention chirurgicale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anesthésie générale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɛs.te.zi ʒe.ne.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anesthésie générale” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
anesthésie générale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.nɛs.te.zi ʒe.ne.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acte médical dont l’objectif principal est la suspension temporaire et réversible de la conscience et de la sensibilité douloureuse, généralement dans le cadre d’une intervention chirurgicale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for anesthésie générale in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is anesthésie générale, spelled A-N-E-S-T-H-É-S-I-E- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Acte médical dont l’objectif principal est la suspension temporaire et réversible de la conscience et de la sensibilité douloureuse, généralement dans le cadre d’une intervention chirurgicale.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-N-E-S-T-H-É-S-I-E- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.