anstellen
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
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anstellen is aFrenchverb. It means: Employer, embaucher (quelqu’un pour quelque chose). Pronounced \ˈan.ʃtɛ.lən\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anstellen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈan.ʃtɛ.lən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for anstellen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈan.ʃtɛ.lən\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for anstellen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is anstellen, spelled A-N-S-T-E-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Employer, embaucher (quelqu’un pour quelque chose).
- 2Jouer un tour, provoquer un accident, faire des siennes.
- 3Mettre en marche, allumer.
- 4Se mettre dans une file d’attente.
- 5Relever un défi.
- 6Relever un défi.
- 7Relever un défi.
- 8Faire.
- 9Apposer, poser de manière qu'il est appuyé sur un objet.
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