anne
\ɑn.nɛ\
The verdict
“anne” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,110) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,110
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anne · anne · French
anne · rank #2,110 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,110
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambiance
Nearest frequency peer: ambiance (-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 « anne »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Vincent
Vincent
97,894 corpus weight
- aient
aient
97,893 corpus weight
- ambiance
ambiance
97,892 corpus weight
- anne
anne
97,891 corpus weight
- aventure
aventure
97,889 corpus weight
- blessé
blessé
97,888 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « anne » 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 | anne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑn.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « anne »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for anne is neighbouring look-alikes ("ans", "axe", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɑn.nɛ\. Frequency #2,110 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Mère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for anne, with forms such as "ane", "anen", and "nane". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ans", "axe", "are", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is anne, spelled A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Mère.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ane
- anen
- nane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).