anesthésier
\a.nɛs.te.zje\
The verdict
“anesthésier” is uncommon French (frequency #78,120 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,120
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre insensible à la douleur par l’anesthésie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anesthesier · anesthésier · French
anesthésier · rank #78,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,120
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH androgènes
Nearest frequency peer: androgènes (-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 « anesthésier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amorcent
amorcent
21,884 corpus weight
- andere
andere
21,883 corpus weight
- androgènes
androgènes
21,882 corpus weight
- anesthésier
anesthésier
21,881 corpus weight
- Anicet
Anicet
21,880 corpus weight
- annulera
annulera
21,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anesthésier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anesthésier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.nɛs.te.zje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anesthésier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anesthésier is uncommon French at frequency #78,120 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.nɛs.te.zje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for anesthésier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 anesthésier, spelled A-N-E-S-T-H-É-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre insensible à la douleur par l’anesthésie.
- 2Rendre inactif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anesthésier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On employait autrefois, pour anesthésier les malades, un appareil relativement compliqué.
Vous ne le sentez pas, vous, quand quelqu’un a la haine de soi ? Ça le conduit à devenir mort tout en étant vivant, à anesthésier les mauvais sentiments mais aussi les bons pour ne pas ressentir la nausée d’être soi.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).