anticlimactic
"anticlimactic" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anticlimactic” is uncommon English (frequency #72,088 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,088
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anticlimactic · anticlimactic · English
anticlimactic · rank #72,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,088
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Anthropocene
Nearest frequency peer: Anthropocene (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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Long-tail ranks near “anticlimactic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anaemic
anaemic
27,919 corpus weight
- anaesthetist
anaesthetist
27,918 corpus weight
- Anthropocene
Anthropocene
27,914 corpus weight
- anticlimact…
anticlimactic
27,913 corpus weight
- anyhoo
anyhoo
27,911 corpus weight
- appraising
appraising
27,909 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “anticlimactic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anticlimactic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #72,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “anticlimactic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
anticlimactic is uncommon English at frequency #72,088 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.".
Zero misspellings are on record for anticlimactic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + climactic. The correct English form is anticlimactic, spelled A-N-T-I-C-L-I-M-A-C-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anticlimactic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After all the build up, the ending of the story was an anticlimactic letdown.
Etymology
From anti- + climactic.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).