annales
\a.nal\
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
- abandonnés
abandonnés
90,049 corpus weight
- anecdote
anecdote
90,047 corpus weight
- annales
annales
90,046 corpus weight
- apercevoir
apercevoir
90,045 corpus weight
- appliquées
appliquées
90,044 corpus weight
- arbitraire
arbitraire
90,043 corpus weight
What this shows « annales » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | annales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « annales »
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
- 1Chronique qui rapporte les événements année par année.
- 2L’histoire.
- 3Recueil des précédents exercices posés à un examen ou un concours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how annales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).