Ann
\an\
The verdict
“Ann” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,144) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,144
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ann · Ann · French
Ann · rank #7,144 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,144
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animale
Nearest frequency peer: animale (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Ann »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- aluminium
aluminium
92,860 corpus weight
- améliore
améliore
92,859 corpus weight
- animale
animale
92,858 corpus weight
- Ann
Ann
92,857 corpus weight
- appartenance
appartenance
92,856 corpus weight
- approbation
approbation
92,855 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Ann » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ann |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \an\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Ann »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ann is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \an\. Frequency #7,144 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Ann in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Ann, spelled A-N-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ann appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le « Syndrome des amours passés », l’acteur s’est fondu avec bonheur dans le dispositif des deux réalisateurs belges Ann Sirot et Raphaël Balboni : pas de script, des heures de répétitions filmées, des dialogues improvisés, une lente maturation du projet qui a pris des années à voir le jour…
Différemment radical, La Montagne, de Thomas Salvador, a remporté le Prix de la critique et partagé celui du jury avec Piaffe, d’Ann Oren.
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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