animus
\a.ni.mys\
The verdict
“animus” is uncommon French (frequency #72,063 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,063
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intention de possession d’un bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-animus · animus · French
animus · rank #72,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,063
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annoncerait
Nearest frequency peer: annoncerait (+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 « animus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anaérobie
anaérobie
27,941 corpus weight
- ancrages
ancrages
27,940 corpus weight
- animus
animus
27,938 corpus weight
- annoncerait
annoncerait
27,937 corpus weight
- ANRU
ANRU
27,936 corpus weight
- antis
antis
27,935 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « animus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.mys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « animus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
animus is uncommon French at frequency #72,063 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.mys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for animus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is animus, spelled A-N-I-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Intention de possession d’un bien.
- 2Part masculine de la femme.
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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