animal

\a.ni.mal\

/\a.ni.mal\/ noun

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The verdict

“animal” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,023. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,023
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Métazoaire ; être organisé, doué de sensibilité et de mouvement, et reproductible au sein de son espèce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-animal · animal · French

animal · rank #2,023 · 8 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,023
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amoureux

Nearest frequency peer: amoureux (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « animal »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « animal » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

animal vs animé
67% similar
animal vs Anita
50% similar
animal vs axial
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for animal
PropertyValue
Headwordanimal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ni.mal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,023
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « animal »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.animalse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « amoureux » (#2,022), « appartement » (#2,024), « œuvres » (#2,021). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « animal » est au #2,023. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around animal (IPA \a.ni.mal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,023 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for animal, with forms such as "ainmal", "aniaml", and "animall". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "animé", "Anita", "axial", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is animal, spelled A-N-I-M-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Métazoaire ; être organisé, doué de sensibilité et de mouvement, et reproductible au sein de son espèce.
  2. 2
    Être animé, humain compris, parfois en opposition à végétal.
  3. 3
    bête, tout animal autre qu’humain, contrairement au sens taxonomique.
  4. 4
    Être animé non humain et d’une certaine taille, se distinguant entre autres de l’insecte.
  5. 5
    Être humain.
  6. 6
    Personne stupide ou grossière. S’emploie aussi sur un ton de reproche affectueux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how animal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un animal ?… Lequel ?… Un chien ?… Un chat ?… Non ! Pourquoi aurait-on caché un quadrupède domestique dans cette caisse ?
  2. Vue de loin, la nature semble harmonieuse. Vue de près, on y observe que les plantes cherchent à s’étouffer les unes les autres et que les animaux utilisent la prédation et le parasitisme.

Synonyms

créaturemétazoairerègne animalêtre vivantbêtecréature

This word in other languages

animal(English)animal(Español)Tier(Deutsch)animal(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ainmal
  • aniaml
  • animall
  • animla
  • animmal
  • anmial
  • annimal
  • naimal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of animal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ainmal2aniaml2animall1animla2animmal1anmial2annimal1naimal2
Edit distance from "animal"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "animal"?
"animal" is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ni.mal\.
What does "animal" mean?
As a noun, "animal" means: Métazoaire ; être organisé, doué de sensibilité et de mouvement, et reproductible au sein de son espèce.
What words are commonly confused with "animal"?
"animal" is commonly confused with "animé", "Anita", "axial". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "animal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "animal" is \a.ni.mal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "animal" come from?
"animal" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "animal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bateau#2,025œuvres#2,021blancs#2,027refuse#2,013

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

classes8 variantsdécès8 variantsclaire8 variantsvolume8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list