Anka
\ˈãŋka\
The verdict
“Anka” is uncommon French (frequency #67,273 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,273
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin polonais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anka · Anka · French
Anka · rank #67,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,273
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH angéliques
Nearest frequency peer: angéliques (-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 « Anka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anaphylacti…
anaphylactique
32,731 corpus weight
- angolaise
angolaise
32,730 corpus weight
- angéliques
angéliques
32,729 corpus weight
- Anka
Anka
32,728 corpus weight
- annulait
annulait
32,727 corpus weight
- annulez
annulez
32,726 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Anka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈãŋka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Anka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Anka is uncommon French at frequency #67,273 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈãŋka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin polonais.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Anka, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Anka, spelled A-N-K-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin polonais.
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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