ankern
\aŋkɐn\
The verdict
“ankern” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeter l’ancre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ankern · ankern · French
ankern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | ankern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \aŋkɐn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ankern » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ankern is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \aŋkɐn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ankern doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ankern, spelled A-N-K-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Jeter l’ancre.
- 2Être ancré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ankern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frau Meiers Yacht ankert vor Monaco.
Am Sonntag hat die malaysische Marine das chinesische Frachtschiff Chuan Hong 68 aufgebracht, das illegal in die Gewässer des Pazifikstaats eingedrungen war. (...) Marinesprecher Nurul Hizam Zakaria sagte der Zeitung "New Straits Times", möglicherweise ankere ein chinesisches "Mutterschiff" außerhalb malaysischer Gewässer.
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.