annales

\a.nal\

/\a.nal\/ noun

The verdict

“annales” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,955
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chronique qui rapporte les événements année par année.

Corpus desk

Index FR-annales · annales · French

annales · rank #9,955 · 7 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,955
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH anecdote

Nearest frequency peer: anecdote (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « annales »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « annales » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

annales vs années
71% similar
annales vs annulé
57% similar
annales vs annuler
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for annales
PropertyValue
Headwordannales
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.nal\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,955
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « annales »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).annalesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « anecdote » (#9,954), « apercevoir » (#9,956), « appliquées » (#9,957). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « annales » est au #9,955. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around annales (IPA \a.nal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,955 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for annales, with forms such as "ananles", "annaels", and "annaless". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "années", "annulé", "annuler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 annales, spelled A-N-N-A-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chronique qui rapporte les événements année par année.
  2. 2
    L’histoire.
  3. 3
    Recueil des précédents exercices posés à un examen ou un concours.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how annales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si au contraire c’est une histoire forgée par quelque nouvel Auteur contenant des faits fabuleux, on ne doit plus faire aucun fond sur ces annales.
  2. Cette particularité se retrouve chez Virgile et d’autres poètes ; c’est un des nombreux artifices auxquels Tacite recourt pour « décicéroniser » le style de ses Annales : III 72 : « ornatum ad urbis. »

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ananles
  • annaels
  • annaless
  • annalles
  • annalse
  • annlaes
  • nanales

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of annales - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ananles2annaels2annaless1annalles1annalse2annlaes2nanales2
Edit distance from "annales"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "annales"?
"annales" is spelled A-N-N-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.nal\.
What does "annales" mean?
As a noun, "annales" means: Chronique qui rapporte les événements année par année.
What words are commonly confused with "annales"?
"annales" is commonly confused with "années", "annulé", "annuler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "annales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "annales" is \a.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "annales" come from?
"annales" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "annales", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list