années
\a.ne\
The verdict
“années” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #189
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Décennie commençant en multiple de dix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-annees · années · French
années · rank #189 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #189
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH sais
Nearest frequency peer: sais (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “années”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- histoire
histoire
99,815 corpus weight
- mort
mort
99,814 corpus weight
- sais
sais
99,813 corpus weight
- années
années
99,812 corpus weight
- fais
fais
99,811 corpus weight
- nouveau
nouveau
99,810 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “années” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | années |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “années” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around années (IPA \a.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #189 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for années, with forms such as "annees", "anneés", and "annéess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Annie", "anses", "apnée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is années, spelled A-N-N-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Décennie commençant en multiple de dix.
- 2Les différents âges de la vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how années appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette plébéianisation ne cesse de se renforcer jusqu'aux années 1950.
Je montrerai que certains concepts inventés par des économistes dès les années 1950 et par des statisticiens dans les années 1960 peuvent être remis au goût du jour pour fournir des modèles de systèmes de transition mêlant choix probabiliste et choix non déterministes (démoniaque, angélique, chaotique, … au choix), et ce même dans des espaces à états cont…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- annees
- anneés
- annéess
- annése
- anées
- anénes
- nanées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of années - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "années", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
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.