anis étoilé
\a.ni.s‿e.twa.le\
The verdict
“anis étoilé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du badianier de Chine (Illicium verum) utilisé entre autres comme épice en cuisine pour son goût anisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anis-etoile · anis étoilé · French
anis étoilé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anis étoilé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.s‿e.twa.le\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
anis étoilé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.s‿e.twa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit du badianier de Chine (Illicium verum) utilisé entre autres comme épice en cuisine pour son goût anisé.".
anis étoilé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is anis étoilé, spelled A-N-I-S- -É-T-O-I-L-É.
Definition
- 1Fruit du badianier de Chine (Illicium verum) utilisé entre autres comme épice en cuisine pour son goût anisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anis étoilé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’anis étoilé ou badiane croît au Tonkin, en Annam, dans la Chine du Sud. Cet arbuste donne des fruits qui sont cueillis avant maturité, séchés sur des claies puis distillés.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.