anguilla
\an.ˈɡwil.la\
The verdict
“anguilla” is uncommon French (frequency #64,232 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,232
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anguille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anguilla · anguilla · French
anguilla · rank #64,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,232
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH andry
Nearest frequency peer: andry (-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 « anguilla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- améliorez
améliorez
35,772 corpus weight
- ando
ando
35,771 corpus weight
- andry
andry
35,770 corpus weight
- anguilla
anguilla
35,769 corpus weight
- Anissa
Anissa
35,768 corpus weight
- aromatisé
aromatisé
35,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anguilla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anguilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \an.ˈɡwil.la\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anguilla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anguilla is uncommon French at frequency #64,232 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \an.ˈɡwil.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Anguille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for anguilla in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is anguilla, spelled A-N-G-U-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Anguille.
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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