annus
The verdict
“annus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,538 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,538
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cercle, révolution circulaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-annus · annus · French
annus · rank #95,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,538
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anomie
Nearest frequency peer: anomie (+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 « annus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Andries
Andries
4,467 corpus weight
- Angell
Angell
4,465 corpus weight
- annus
annus
4,463 corpus weight
- anomie
anomie
4,462 corpus weight
- Anouchka
Anouchka
4,461 corpus weight
- antibactéri…
antibactériens
4,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « annus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | annus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « annus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
annus is uncommon French at frequency #95,538 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for annus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is annus, spelled A-N-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Cercle, révolution circulaire.
- 2An, année.
- 3Âge, époque, âge légal (pour se présenter aux magistratures).
- 4Saison.
- 5Récolte de l'année.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how annus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
magnum sol circumvolvitur annum
matronae annum luxerunt (accusatif de durée)
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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