anoxie
\a.nɔk.si\
The verdict
“anoxie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence ou très forte diminution de l’oxygène disponible pour les tissus de l’organisme, entraînant un dysfonctionnement cellulaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anoxie · anoxie · French
anoxie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anoxie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɔk.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
anoxie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.nɔk.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for anoxie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is anoxie, spelled A-N-O-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Absence ou très forte diminution de l’oxygène disponible pour les tissus de l’organisme, entraînant un dysfonctionnement cellulaire.
- 2Absence ou très faible concentration de dioxygène dissous dans une colonne d’eau ou un sédiment immergé, perturbant l’équilibre des écosystèmes aquatiques.
- 3Absence ou très faible concentration de dioxygène dans les pores du sol, généralement due à une saturation en eau, limitant l’activité racinaire et microbienne aérobie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anoxie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La consultation médicale de 73 avait fait apparaître une anoxie, une asphyxie du cerveau. L’état des artères et des artérioles était lamentable. L’alcool y était pour beaucoup, le tabac également.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.