anicroche
\a.ni.kʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“anicroche” is uncommon French (frequency #85,462 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,462
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Légère difficulté, léger obstacle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anicroche · anicroche · French
anicroche · rank #85,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH angiotensine
Nearest frequency peer: angiotensine (-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 « anicroche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Amilly
Amilly
14,542 corpus weight
- amuserait
amuserait
14,541 corpus weight
- angiotensine
angiotensine
14,540 corpus weight
- anicroche
anicroche
14,539 corpus weight
- annexions
annexions
14,538 corpus weight
- annonçais
annonçais
14,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anicroche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anicroche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.kʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anicroche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anicroche is uncommon French at frequency #85,462 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.kʁɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
anicroche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 anicroche, spelled A-N-I-C-R-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Légère difficulté, léger obstacle.
- 2Grandes difficultés qu’on fait naître à dessein.
- 3Arme en forme de crochet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anicroche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certainement, il y avait des anicroches dans la vie, disait madame Lerat.
La bru et le gendre vinrent tous deux s’installer à la Creuserie, ce qui nous permit de supprimer la servante et le domestique que nous prenions d’habitude. Seulement, cela faisait trois ménages réunis, et quand il y a trois ménages dans la même maison ça ne marche jamais longtemps sans anicroche.
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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