Antigone
/ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/
"antigone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Antigone” is uncommon English (frequency #52,148 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,148
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology
Corpus desk
Index EN-antigone · Antigone · English
Antigone · rank #52,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,148
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH antifungal
Nearest frequency peer: antifungal (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Antigone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Andie
Andie
47,859 corpus weight
- Andrus
Andrus
47,858 corpus weight
- angiography
angiography
47,856 corpus weight
- antifungal
antifungal
47,854 corpus weight
- Antigone
Antigone
47,853 corpus weight
- aquamarine
aquamarine
47,849 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Antigone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Antigone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Antigone is uncommon English at frequency #52,148 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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