antidepressant
"antidepressant" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“antidepressant” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,440
- frequency rank, English
- 35,202
- “A” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antidepressant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #31,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “antidepressant” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around antidepressant, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,440 among 35,202 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for antidepressant, with forms such as "anitdepressant", "anntidepressant", and "antdiepressant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + depressant. The correct English form is antidepressant, spelled A-N-T-I-D-E-P-R-E-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
Etymology
From anti- + depressant.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anitdepressant
- anntidepressant
- antdiepressant
- antiddepressant
- antideperssant
- antideppressant
- antidepresant
- antidepresasnt
- antidepressannt
- antidepressantt
- antidepressatn
- antidepressnat
- antideprressant
- antideprsesant
- antiderpessant
- antidperessant
- antiedpressant
- anttidepressant
- atnidepressant
- natidepressant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antidepressant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “antidepressant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-T-I-D-E-P-R-E-S-S-A-N-T - 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.