année
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#173
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
année is aFrenchnoun. It means: Subdivision du temps, correspondant à la durée d’une révolution de la Terre autour du Soleil, qui comporte 365 jours (ou 366 jours dans l’année bissextile), 52 semaines environ, 12 mois solaires. Pronounced \a.ne\. It ranks #173 in French word frequency. Often confused with anse and axée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | année |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for année is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #173 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 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 année, with forms such as "annee", "anneé", and "anée". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anse", "axée", "aune", 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 année, spelled A-N-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Subdivision du temps, correspondant à la durée d’une révolution de la Terre autour du Soleil, qui comporte 365 jours (ou 366 jours dans l’année bissextile), 52 semaines environ, 12 mois solaires.
- 2Temps nécessaire à la révolution d’une planète autour de son étoile.
- 3Durée de douze mois, sans égard à l’époque où elle commence ni à l’époque où elle finit.
- 4Ce que l’on doit recevoir ou payer par année ; annuité.
- 5Niveau de classe.
- 6Période en rapport au climat ou aux cultures agricoles.
- 7Décennie commençant en multiple de dix. → voir années
- 8Les différents âges de la vie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: annee,anneé,anée,anéne,nanée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for année
Misspelling Variants of "année"
Frequency rank: #173 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "année"?
What does "année" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "année"?
How do you pronounce "année"?
What language does "année" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: