anticlinal
\ɑ̃.ti.kli.nal\
The verdict
“anticlinal” is uncommon French (frequency #80,864 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,864
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie le pli convexe de couches géologiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anticlinal · anticlinal · French
anticlinal · rank #80,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,864
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antica
Nearest frequency peer: antica (-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 « anticlinal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Angeline
Angeline
19,139 corpus weight
- antica
antica
19,138 corpus weight
- anticlinal
anticlinal
19,137 corpus weight
- antiennes
antiennes
19,136 corpus weight
- antonyme
antonyme
19,135 corpus weight
- apathiques
apathiques
19,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anticlinal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anticlinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.kli.nal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anticlinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anticlinal is uncommon French at frequency #80,864 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ti.kli.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie le pli convexe de couches géologiques.".
anticlinal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is anticlinal, spelled A-N-T-I-C-L-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qualifie le pli convexe de couches géologiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anticlinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'anticlinal de la Cerleau (terrains jurassiques) prolonge à l'ouest le gros pli anticlinal calédonien de Deville (terrains cambriens) qui fait réapparaître le Devillien entre deux régions occupées par le Revinien.
Antonyms
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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