annals
\an.ˈnals\
The verdict
“annals” is uncommon French (frequency #87,323 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,323
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel d’annal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-annals · annals · French
annals · rank #87,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,323
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antiqua
Nearest frequency peer: antiqua (+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 « annals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Anglia
Anglia
12,681 corpus weight
- anglicisati…
anglicisation
12,680 corpus weight
- annals
annals
12,678 corpus weight
- antiqua
antiqua
12,677 corpus weight
- anémomètre
anémomètre
12,676 corpus weight
- Aphatie
Aphatie
12,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « annals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | annals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \an.ˈnals\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « annals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
annals is uncommon French at frequency #87,323 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \an.ˈnals\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel d’annal.".
annals doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is annals, spelled A-N-N-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel d’annal.
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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