animé
\a.ni.me\
The verdict
“animé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,825
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doué d’esprit ou capable d'agir, en particulier de se mouvoir ; animal ; qui a un vécu, une vie de l'esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anime · animé · French
animé · rank #4,825 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,825
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amuser
Nearest frequency peer: amuser (-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 « animé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alimentaires
alimentaires
95,179 corpus weight
- altitude
altitude
95,178 corpus weight
- amuser
amuser
95,177 corpus weight
- animé
animé
95,176 corpus weight
- anonyme
anonyme
95,175 corpus weight
- arrestation
arrestation
95,174 corpus weight
What this shows « animé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ni.me\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « animé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around animé (IPA \a.ni.me\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,825 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for animé, with forms such as "ainmé", "anime", and "animmé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is animé, spelled A-N-I-M-É.
Definition
- 1Doué d’esprit ou capable d'agir, en particulier de se mouvoir ; animal ; qui a un vécu, une vie de l'esprit.
- 2Mu par.
- 3Excité, actif.
- 4Qualifie un genre grammatical propre aux sujets doués de vie, par opposition aux choses inanimées (en français : à qui penses-tu ? à quoi penses-tu ?).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how animé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les êtres animés.
Animé de sentiments bienveillants.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ainmé
- anime
- animmé
- aniém
- anmié
- annimé
- naimé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of animé - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).