anneau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,164
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
anneau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cercle fait d’une matière dure et qui sert à attacher quelque chose. Pronounced \a.no\. It ranks #6,164 in French word frequency. Often confused with année and années.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anneau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for anneau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.no\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,164 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for anneau, with forms such as "aneau", "anenau", and "annaeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "année", "années", "annexe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is anneau, spelled A-N-N-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cercle fait d’une matière dure et qui sert à attacher quelque chose.
- 2Bague de cette forme.
- 3Quelque chose qui rappelle cette forme.
- 4Figure plane délimitée par deux cercles concentriques ; couronne.
- 5Voie de cette forme, à l’usage des véhicules (rond-point) ou à usage sportif. → voir boulevard périphérique
- 6Ouverture circulaire qui sert principalement au passage d’un organe corporel.
- 7Ornement figurant une chaîne, qui sert à décorer des frises, des balustrades ou des moulures.
- 8Anneau planétaire.
- 9Agrès de gymnastique composé de deux cercles de métal fixés au bout de deux cordes suspendues à un portique.
- 10Anneau de course.
- 11Meuble représentant un anneau dans les armoiries. Il est peu souvent utilisé parce qu’il peut être confondu avec un annelet. À rapprocher de annelet et cyclamor.
- 12Objet de jonglerie.
- 13Cerne ; périphrase pour anneau de croissance.
- 14Rang de cellules spécialisées situé entre le haut d'une capsule et son opercule (rôle lors de la déhiscence).
- 15Partie d'un rond point qui une fois parcourue ramène à la position de départ.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aneau,anenau,annaeu,anneua,naneau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anneau
Misspelling Variants of "anneau"
Frequency rank: #6,164 in French
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