antique
[ɑ̃.tik]
The verdict
“antique” is uncommon German (frequency #86,175 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,175
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antik, alt, altertümlich, uralt, altmodisch
Corpus desk
Index DE-antique · antique · German
antique · rank #86,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,175
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Antikommunism…
Nearest frequency peer: Antikommunismus (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „antique“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- answers
answers
13,829 corpus weight
- anterior
anterior
13,828 corpus weight
- Antikommuni…
Antikommunismus
13,827 corpus weight
- antique
antique
13,826 corpus weight
- antue
antue
13,825 corpus weight
- Apfelbäume
Apfelbäume
13,823 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „antique“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antique |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɑ̃.tik] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „antique“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
antique is uncommon German at frequency #86,175 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɑ̃.tik]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "antik, alt, altertümlich, uralt, altmodisch".
No misspelling variants are generated for antique in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is antique, spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1antik, alt, altertümlich, uralt, altmodisch
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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