Antigone
/ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/
"antigone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Antigone” is an uncommon English word, ranked #52,148 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #52,148
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antigone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Antigone” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Antigone is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/. Corpus data places it at rank #52,148 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology".
Zero misspellings are on record for Antigone in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Antigonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιγόνη (Antigónē). The correct English form is Antigone, spelled A-N-T-I-G-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology
Etymology
From Latin Antigonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιγόνη (Antigónē).
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 “Antigone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-T-I-G-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.