anthropologue
\ɑ̃.tʁɔ.pɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“anthropologue” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,859
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste de l’anthropologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anthropologue · anthropologue · French
anthropologue · rank #24,859 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,859
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annonça
Nearest frequency peer: annonça (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « anthropologue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- améliorées
améliorées
75,145 corpus weight
- Andalousie
Andalousie
75,144 corpus weight
- annonça
annonça
75,143 corpus weight
- anthropolog…
anthropologue
75,142 corpus weight
- Arcachon
Arcachon
75,140 corpus weight
- arf
arf
75,139 corpus weight
What this shows « anthropologue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anthropologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁɔ.pɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #24,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anthropologue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around anthropologue (IPA \ɑ̃.tʁɔ.pɔ.lɔɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,859 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Spécialiste de l’anthropologie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for anthropologue, with forms such as "anhtropologue", "annthropologue", and "anthhropologue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "anthropologues", "anthropologie", "anthropologique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is anthropologue, spelled A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialiste de l’anthropologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anthropologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il s’agissait de l’alimentation de base de cette mère, je me devais, en tant qu’anthropologue, de respecter la culture locale et de ne pas intervenir dans une pratique alimentaire si répandue.
Or, ce que je vais découvrir en Amazonie, c’est le processus de destruction des environnements que l’on qualifie de “naturels”… mais qui sont en partie le produit d’actions humaines, comme l’ont montré mes travaux et ceux d’autres anthropologues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anhtropologue
- annthropologue
- anthhropologue
- anthorpologue
- anthrooplogue
- anthroploogue
- anthropolgoue
- anthropollogue
- anthropologeu
- anthropologgue
- anthropolouge
- anthropoolgue
- anthroppologue
- anthrpoologue
- anthrropologue
- antrhopologue
- antthropologue
- atnhropologue
- nathropologue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anthropologue - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).