Anson
\ɑ̃.sɔn\
The verdict
“Anson” is uncommon French (frequency #53,765 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,765
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille germanique belge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anson · Anson · French
Anson · rank #53,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,765
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animalière
Nearest frequency peer: animalière (-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 « Anson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amphithéâtr…
amphithéâtres
46,240 corpus weight
- animalière
animalière
46,237 corpus weight
- Anson
Anson
46,236 corpus weight
- antalgiques
antalgiques
46,235 corpus weight
- aplanir
aplanir
46,234 corpus weight
- apprécierais
apprécierais
46,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Anson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Anson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Anson is uncommon French at frequency #53,765 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɑ̃.sɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille germanique belge.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Anson in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Anson, spelled A-N-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille germanique belge.
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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