Anquetil
\ɑ̃k.til\
The verdict
“Anquetil” is uncommon French (frequency #59,072 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,072
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anquetil · Anquetil · French
Anquetil · rank #59,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,072
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apaisent
Nearest frequency peer: apaisent (+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 « Anquetil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- angeli
angeli
40,932 corpus weight
- anglicans
anglicans
40,931 corpus weight
- Anquetil
Anquetil
40,929 corpus weight
- apaisent
apaisent
40,928 corpus weight
- apparais
apparais
40,927 corpus weight
- appareiller
appareiller
40,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Anquetil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anquetil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃k.til\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Anquetil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Anquetil is uncommon French at frequency #59,072 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɑ̃k.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Anquetil has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Anquetil, spelled A-N-Q-U-E-T-I-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Anquetil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les coureurs français les plus adulés (Anquetil, Thévenet, Hinault, Fignon, Duclos-Lassalle, Virenque, Jalabert ou Alaphilippe) tout comme certains maillots jaunes internationaux (Indurain, Evans, Contador ou Froome) y ont fendu la foule.
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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