anheben
\ˈanˌheːbn̩\
The verdict
“anheben” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soulever légèrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anheben · anheben · French
anheben · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anheben |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈanˌheːbn̩\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anheben » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anheben is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈanˌheːbn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for anheben, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 anheben, spelled A-N-H-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Soulever légèrement.
- 2Rehausser, augmenter.
- 3Commencer, se mettre à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anheben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dann setzte sie sich auf einen Schemel, nahm den Grindigen zwischen ihre Beine und hub an, ihn zu säubern, indem sie ihm den Kopf mit weiblicher Geschicklichkeit und mütterlicher Sorgfalt wusch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.