annihile
\a.ni.il\
The verdict
“annihile” is uncommon French (frequency #71,241 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,241
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe annihiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-annihile · annihile · French
annihile · rank #71,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,241
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animistes
Nearest frequency peer: animistes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « annihile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Anduze
Anduze
28,762 corpus weight
- animistes
animistes
28,761 corpus weight
- annihile
annihile
28,760 corpus weight
- antichar
antichar
28,759 corpus weight
- antidouleur
antidouleur
28,758 corpus weight
- antillaises
antillaises
28,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « annihile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | annihile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ni.il\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « annihile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
annihile is uncommon French at frequency #71,241 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ni.il\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for annihile in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is annihile, spelled A-N-N-I-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe annihiler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe annihiler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe annihiler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe annihiler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe annihiler.
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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