anorexie
\a.nɔ.ʁɛk.si\
The verdict
“anorexie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,220
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence, perte d’appétit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anorexie · anorexie · French
anorexie · rank #29,220 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,220
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amenées
Nearest frequency peer: amenées (-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 « anorexie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affluents
affluents
70,784 corpus weight
- amenées
amenées
70,782 corpus weight
- anorexie
anorexie
70,781 corpus weight
- antiquaires
antiquaires
70,780 corpus weight
- apprivoiser
apprivoiser
70,778 corpus weight
- appréciera
appréciera
70,777 corpus weight
What this shows « anorexie » 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 | anorexie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɔ.ʁɛk.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anorexie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around anorexie (IPA \a.nɔ.ʁɛk.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,220 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for anorexie, with forms such as "annorexie", "anoerxie", and "anoreixe". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "anorexique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is anorexie, spelled A-N-O-R-E-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Absence, perte d’appétit.
- 2Sensation de satiété qui se rencontre dans nombre de maladies infectieuses (cancer, tuberculose…) et des affections du tube digestif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anorexie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En psychiatrie, l’anorexie est un des symptômes principaux du syndrome dépressif.
L’anorexie restrictive est une addiction qui fait croire au contrôle alors qu’elle conduit le corps à sa destruction.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- annorexie
- anoerxie
- anoreixe
- anorexei
- anorexxie
- anorrexie
- anorxeie
- anroexie
- aonrexie
- naorexie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anorexie - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).