anti-communist
"anti-communist" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anti-communist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of anticommunist.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anti-communist · anti-communist · English
anti-communist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anti-communist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “anti-communist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
anti-communist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of anticommunist.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for anti-communist in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is anti-communist, spelled A-N-T-I---C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of anticommunist.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anti-communist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But many Americans continued to believe that two vital questions about Formosa still deserved debate. The first was strategic: in the event of another war, will the U.S. need Formosa? The second was moral: should the U.S., as an anti-Communist power, help maintain a center of anti-Communist resistance in China?
The interior of Mao Tse-tung’s house at Hsiangtan County in Hunan Province was damaged by a number of anti-Communist protestors on June 23, according to a news report reaching Taipei recently.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.