anse
French, noun
anse is spelled A-N-S-E (4 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 16,088th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anse is a French feminine noun meaning “an arc segment, from which an object is suspended” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ansé is a different word: “past participle of anser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie saillante, souvent de forme annulaire, servant à saisir ou à porter certains récipients ou objets”.
What does anse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininean arc segment, from which an object is suspended
- 2
femininea handle, part of an object to be hand-held when used or moved
- 3
femininea small bay (body of water)
verb
- 1
past participle of anser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie saillante, souvent de forme annulaire, servant à saisir ou à porter certains récipients ou objets. 2. Forme ou objet recourbé. 3. Assemblage géométrique, ressemblant à une moitié d’ellipse, construit par juxtaposition d'un nombre impair d’arcs de cercles (souvent trois) de centres différents. 4. Voûte surbaissée réalisée suivant le dessin d’une anse de panier.
adjective: 1. Qui est pourvu d’une anse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anse
- anses plural
- ansée feminine
- ansés masculine plural
- ansées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anse in French?
anse appears 3.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).