animé

/\a.ni.me\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,825

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

animé is anFrenchadj. It means: Doué d’esprit ou capable d'agir, en particulier de se mouvoir ; animal ; qui a un vécu, une vie de l'esprit. Pronounced \a.ni.me\. It ranks #4,825 in French word frequency. Often confused with anne and Asie.

Key facts for animé
PropertyValue
Headwordanimé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a.ni.me\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,825
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for animé is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ni.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,825 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for animé, with forms such as "ainmé", "anime", and "animmé". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anne", "Asie", "armé", 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 animé, spelled A-N-I-M-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doué d’esprit ou capable d'agir, en particulier de se mouvoir ; animal ; qui a un vécu, une vie de l'esprit.
  2. 2
    Mu par.
  3. 3
    Excité, actif.
  4. 4
    Qualifie un genre grammatical propre aux sujets doués de vie, par opposition aux choses inanimées (en français : à qui penses-tu ? à quoi penses-tu ?).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ainmé,anime,animmé,aniém,anmié,annimé,naimé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for animé

Misspelling Variants of "animé"

ainmé5anime5animmé6aniém5anmié5annimé6naimé5
Misspelling Variants of "animé"

Frequency rank: #4,825 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "animé"?
"animé" is spelled A-N-I-M-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ni.me\.
What does "animé" mean?
As an adj, "animé" means: Doué d’esprit ou capable d'agir, en particulier de se mouvoir ; animal ; qui a un vécu, une vie de l'esprit.
What words are commonly confused with "animé"?
"animé" is commonly confused with "anne", "Asie", "armé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "animé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "animé" is \a.ni.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "animé" come from?
"animé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.