anxiété

/\ɑ̃k.sje.te\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,779

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

anxiété is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pénible embarras ; vive inquiétude. Pronounced \ɑ̃k.sje.te\. It ranks #9,779 in French word frequency. Often confused with anxieux and anxieuse.

Key facts for anxiété
PropertyValue
Headwordanxiété
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃k.sje.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,779
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of anxiété in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for anxiété is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃k.sje.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,779 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for anxiété, with forms such as "anixété", "annxiété", and "anxiete". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "anxieux", "anxieuse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 anxiété, spelled A-N-X-I-É-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pénible embarras ; vive inquiétude.
  2. 2
    Malaise général, accompagné d’un resserrement à l’épigastre et d’un besoin continuel de changer de position.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: anixété,annxiété,anxiete,anxitéé,anxiétté,anxiéét,anxxiété,anxéité,axniété,naxiété

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anxiété

Misspelling Variants of "anxiété"

anixété7annxiété8anxiete7anxitéé7anxiétté8anxiéét7anxxiété8anxéité7
Misspelling Variants of "anxiété"

Frequency rank: #9,779 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anxiété"?
"anxiété" is spelled A-N-X-I-É-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃k.sje.te\.
What does "anxiété" mean?
As a noun, "anxiété" means: Pénible embarras ; vive inquiétude.
What words are commonly confused with "anxiété"?
"anxiété" is commonly confused with "anxieux", "anxieuse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "anxiété"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "anxiété" is \ɑ̃k.sje.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "anxiété" come from?
"anxiété" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.