Anschluss
\ɑ̃ʃ.lus\
The verdict
“Anschluss” is uncommon French (frequency #78,124 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,124
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rattachement de l’Autriche en 1938 au IIIᵉ Reich.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anschluss · Anschluss · French
Anschluss · rank #78,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,124
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annulera
Nearest frequency peer: annulera (-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 « Anschluss »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anesthésier
anesthésier
21,881 corpus weight
- Anicet
Anicet
21,880 corpus weight
- annulera
annulera
21,878 corpus weight
- Anschluss
Anschluss
21,877 corpus weight
- anthropocène
anthropocène
21,876 corpus weight
- anticonstit…
anticonstitutionnelle
21,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Anschluss » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anschluss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ʃ.lus\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Anschluss » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Anschluss is uncommon French at frequency #78,124 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃ʃ.lus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Anschluss in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Anschluss, spelled A-N-S-C-H-L-U-S-S.
Definition
- 1Rattachement de l’Autriche en 1938 au IIIᵉ Reich.
- 2Annexion ou revendication brutale d'un territoire.
- 3Extorsion ou revendication brutale de ce que l’on convoite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anschluss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils redoutent le Japon et les Anschluss qu’il prépare en Chine et ailleurs. Il faut sur l’océan Pacifique une unité de front. Le Mexique, du reste, n’a point de peine à s’associer à la démocratie américaine contre l’impérialisme japonais.
Le centralisme représente ainsi le mal absolu à tel point qu'en 1939, Gonzague de Reynold place sur le même plan nazisme et Révolution française, dont les Anschluss avaient été l'annexion de l’évêché de Bâle, de la Valteline et de Genève.
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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