anet
\a.nɛt\
The verdict
“anet” is uncommon French (frequency #61,296 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,296
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de aneth.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anet · anet · French
anet · rank #61,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,296
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Andromeda
Nearest frequency peer: Andromeda (-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 « anet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alton
alton
38,709 corpus weight
- ambivalente
ambivalente
38,708 corpus weight
- Andromeda
Andromeda
38,706 corpus weight
- anet
anet
38,705 corpus weight
- anguleux
anguleux
38,704 corpus weight
- apaisées
apaisées
38,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anet is uncommon French at frequency #61,296 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
anet has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is anet, spelled A-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de aneth.
- 2Synonyme de maclon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Moyen Age en Alsace, on y apportait du raifort, du cerfeuil, du persil, de l’anet (fenouil) et même de l’épine vinette.
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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