année civile
\a.ne si.vil\
The verdict
“année civile” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Année du premier janvier au 31 décembre, des calendriers juliens et grégoriens.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | année civile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ne si.vil\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “année civile” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for année civile is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ne si.vil\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for année civile, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is année civile, spelled A-N-N-É-E- -C-I-V-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Année du premier janvier au 31 décembre, des calendriers juliens et grégoriens.
- 2Année du premier au dernier jour d'un autre calendrier non-religieux.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-N-N-É-E- -C-I-V-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ne si.vil\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.