Anissa
\a.ni.sa\
The verdict
“Anissa” is uncommon French (frequency #64,233 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,233
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin arabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anissa · Anissa · French
Anissa · rank #64,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,233
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anguilla
Nearest frequency peer: anguilla (-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 « Anissa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ando
ando
35,771 corpus weight
- andry
andry
35,770 corpus weight
- anguilla
anguilla
35,769 corpus weight
- Anissa
Anissa
35,768 corpus weight
- aromatisé
aromatisé
35,767 corpus weight
- aromatisée
aromatisée
35,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Anissa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anissa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Anissa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Anissa is uncommon French at frequency #64,233 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ni.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin arabe.".
Anissa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Anissa, spelled A-N-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin arabe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anissa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des images stéréotypées, Anissa en a repéré plus d’une.
L’écologie, ça ne me parle pas, lâche Anissa, 17 ans.
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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