anomalie
\a.nɔ.ma.li\
The verdict
“anomalie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,907
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est anormal ou anomal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anomalie · anomalie · French
anomalie · rank #11,907 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,907
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animales
Nearest frequency peer: animales (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « anomalie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ambulance
ambulance
88,097 corpus weight
- ancienneté
ancienneté
88,096 corpus weight
- animales
animales
88,095 corpus weight
- anomalie
anomalie
88,094 corpus weight
- antisémite
antisémite
88,093 corpus weight
- antérieures
antérieures
88,092 corpus weight
What this shows « anomalie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | anomalie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɔ.ma.li\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anomalie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around anomalie (IPA \a.nɔ.ma.li\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,907 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for anomalie, with forms such as "anmoalie", "annomalie", and "anoamlie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "anormale", "anomalies", "animale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is anomalie, spelled A-N-O-M-A-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est anormal ou anomal.
- 2Irrégularité des mouvements planétaires.
- 3Angle qui mesure cette irrégularité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anomalie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les peintres et graveurs avec qui il travaille, Wiener me voit comme une anomalie artistique, un des rares lithographes à s’intéresser d’aussi près et avec autant de curiosité au rendu des couleurs.
M. Lemot a dépensé des sommes énormes pour faire du pittoresque, et il n’a réussi qu’à faire de l’anomalie : elle était plus sensible encore par la présence du drapeau tricolore sur cette ruine du onzième siècle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anmoalie
- annomalie
- anoamlie
- anomaile
- anomalei
- anomallie
- anomlaie
- anommalie
- aonmalie
- naomalie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anomalie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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