ani

/\a.ni\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#27,317

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ani is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre d'oiseaux de la famille des cuculidés comprenant trois espèces distribuées dans toute l'Amérique néotropicale, de plumage entièrement d'un noir lustré, avec un bec conique épais et fort, se d... Pronounced \a.ni\. Often confused with au and As.

Key facts for ani
PropertyValue
Headwordani
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ni\
Letters3
Frequency rank#27,317
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ani in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ani is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,317 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Genre d'oiseaux de la famille des cuculidés comprenant trois espèces distribuées dans toute l'Amérique néotropicale, de plumage entièrement d'un noir lustré, avec un bec conique épais et fort, se d...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ani in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ani, spelled A-N-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genre d'oiseaux de la famille des cuculidés comprenant trois espèces distribuées dans toute l'Amérique néotropicale, de plumage entièrement d'un noir lustré, avec un bec conique épais et fort, se déplaçant le plus souvent en grandes bandes bruyantes avec d'autres anis ou autres espèces de cuculidés, dont le guira cantara.

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Frequency rank: #27,317 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ani"?
"ani" is spelled A-N-I. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ni\.
What does "ani" mean?
As a noun, "ani" means: Genre d'oiseaux de la famille des cuculidés comprenant trois espèces distribuées dans toute l'Amérique néotropicale, de plumage entièrement d'un noir lustré, avec un bec conique épais et fort, se d...
What words are commonly confused with "ani"?
"ani" is commonly confused with "au", "As", "at". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ani"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ani" is \a.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ani" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.