anthrax
\ɑ̃.tʁaks\
The verdict
“anthrax” is uncommon French (frequency #50,638 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,638
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infection staphylococcique de l’appareil glandulaire pilosébacé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anthrax · anthrax · French
anthrax · rank #50,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,638
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ANPE
Nearest frequency peer: ANPE (-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 « anthrax »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Andromaque
Andromaque
49,366 corpus weight
- anglican
anglican
49,365 corpus weight
- ANPE
ANPE
49,364 corpus weight
- anthrax
anthrax
49,363 corpus weight
- anéantit
anéantit
49,362 corpus weight
- apeuré
apeuré
49,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anthrax » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anthrax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁaks\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anthrax » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anthrax is uncommon French at frequency #50,638 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁaks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for anthrax in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is anthrax, spelled A-N-T-H-R-A-X.
Definition
- 1Infection staphylococcique de l’appareil glandulaire pilosébacé.
- 2Grenat, pierre dont l’éclat rappelle celui du charbon ardent. Grenat, spinelle rouge.
- 3Genre d’insectes diptères brachycères de la famille des Bombyliidae.
- 4Maladie du charbon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anthrax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’anthrax est une affection analogue au furoncle, dont il ne diffère que par le volume de la tumeur.
L’expérience me permet d’affirmer que nous sommes incapables de discerner dans l’enchaînement des faits ce qui produira le bon ou le mauvais. J’ai vu des fluxions de poitrine guéries par des anthrax monstrueux, cancériformes et très dégoûtants.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).