anil
\a.nil\
The verdict
“anil” is uncommon French (frequency #60,538 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,538
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indigotier, plante dont on tire l’indigo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anil · anil · French
anil · rank #60,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,538
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antarctiques
Nearest frequency peer: antarctiques (+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 « anil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Anchorage
Anchorage
39,466 corpus weight
- Andersson
Andersson
39,465 corpus weight
- anil
anil
39,463 corpus weight
- antarctiques
antarctiques
39,462 corpus weight
- antiseptiqu…
antiseptiques
39,461 corpus weight
- antisocial
antisocial
39,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nil\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anil is uncommon French at frequency #60,538 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.nil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Indigotier, plante dont on tire l’indigo.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for anil, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is anil, spelled A-N-I-L.
Definition
- 1Indigotier, plante dont on tire l’indigo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Indigo est une fécule bleue qu’on retire de l’anil, en faisant macérer dans de l’eau cette plante pendant vingt-quatre heures.
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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