anticlimactic
"anticlimactic" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anticlimactic” is an uncommon English word, ranked #72,088 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #72,088
- frequency rank, English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
| 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) |
Where “anticlimactic” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for anticlimactic is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #72,088 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “anticlimactic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-T-I-C-L-I-M-A-C-T-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.