anormal
\a.nɔʁ.mal\
The verdict
“anormal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,715. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,715
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est contraire aux règles qui paraissent régir son genre ou son espèce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anormal · anormal · French
anormal · rank #12,715 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,715
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animer
Nearest frequency peer: animer (-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 “anormal”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- amitiés
amitiés
87,289 corpus weight
- animer
animer
87,287 corpus weight
- anormal
anormal
87,286 corpus weight
- antibiotiqu…
antibiotiques
87,285 corpus weight
- apprenti
apprenti
87,284 corpus weight
- Arras
Arras
87,283 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “anormal” 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 | anormal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.nɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “anormal” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around anormal (IPA \a.nɔʁ.mal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,715 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 anormal, with forms such as "annormal", "anomral", and "anoraml". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "anormale", "anormaux", "anormales", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 anormal, spelled A-N-O-R-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est contraire aux règles qui paraissent régir son genre ou son espèce.
- 2Qui dépasse la mesure commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anormal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les savants s’occupèrent de tout dans une paix profonde, depuis la végétation anormale d'un ognon de jacinthe jusqu'aux courants électriques.
L'inconscience règne parmi les autorités municipales qui ont laissé faire en fermant les yeux. Et ceux qui ont construit ou ont acheté ensuite sans s'interroger n'y ont rien vu d' anormal non plus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- annormal
- anomral
- anoraml
- anormall
- anormla
- anormmal
- anorrmal
- anromal
- aonrmal
- naormal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anormal - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "anormal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "anormal". Here's where to go from here.
- "anormal" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "anormale". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #12,715 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.