ansi
\ˈan.si\
The verdict
“ansi” is uncommon French (frequency #68,041 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,041
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ansare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ansi · ansi · French
ansi · rank #68,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,041
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ANP
Nearest frequency peer: ANP (-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 « ansi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anglos
anglos
31,964 corpus weight
- animatrices
animatrices
31,963 corpus weight
- ANP
ANP
31,961 corpus weight
- ansi
ansi
31,960 corpus weight
- Apollonia
Apollonia
31,957 corpus weight
- applicabili…
applicabilité
31,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ansi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ansi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈan.si\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ansi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ansi is uncommon French at frequency #68,041 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈan.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
ansi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ansi, spelled A-N-S-I.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ansare.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ansare.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ansare.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ansare.
- 5Troisième personne du singulier de l’impératif de ansare.
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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