anxieux
\ɑ̃k.sjø\
The verdict
“anxieux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,114
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a le caractère de l’anxiété, qui exprime l’anxiété.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anxieux · anxieux · French
anxieux · rank #18,114 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,114
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Anderlecht
Nearest frequency peer: Anderlecht (-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 « anxieux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ambitieuse
ambitieuse
81,890 corpus weight
- ancrage
ancrage
81,889 corpus weight
- Anderlecht
Anderlecht
81,888 corpus weight
- anxieux
anxieux
81,887 corpus weight
- API
API
81,886 corpus weight
- appuyés
appuyés
81,885 corpus weight
What this shows « anxieux » 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 | anxieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃k.sjø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anxieux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around anxieux (IPA \ɑ̃k.sjø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,114 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for anxieux, with forms such as "anixeux", "annxieux", and "anxeiux". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "aïeux", "adieux", "anxiété", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is anxieux, spelled A-N-X-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a le caractère de l’anxiété, qui exprime l’anxiété.
- 2(Suivi de de et d’un verbe) Impatient, désireux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anxieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il est impossible de décrire les Américains de 1933 et l’espoir anxieux avec lequel ils ont attendu les actes d’un nouveau chef, si l’on ne rappelle d’abord l’étendue de la catastrophe.
"En 2019, maman est retournée voir un autre neurologue à Cavaillon qui a mis ça sur le compte d'un terrain anxieux", relate Caroline Darian. Une forme immense d'anxiété dans laquelle elle est restée pendant près d'une décennie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anixeux
- annxieux
- anxeiux
- anxieuxx
- anxiexu
- anxiuex
- anxxieux
- axnieux
- naxieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anxieux - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).