antimony

/ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/

//ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː// noun

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"antimony" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“antimony” is uncommon English (frequency #50,357 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,357
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal.

Corpus desk

Index EN-antimony · antimony · English

antimony · rank #50,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,357
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH anker

Nearest frequency peer: anker (-1 rank slots)

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Long-tail ranks near “antimony”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “antimony” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for antimony
PropertyValue
Headwordantimony
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/
Letters8
Frequency rank#50,357
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “antimony” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).antimonyfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “anker” (#50,356), “Anheuser” (#50,355), “appraise” (#50,359). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “antimony” is #50,357. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

antimony is uncommon English at frequency #50,357 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antimony, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin antimonium, attested in the 11th century; see also the Wikipedia section. The correct English form is antimony, spelled A-N-T-I-M-O-N-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal.
  2. 2
    The alloy stibnite.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how antimony appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Deep in the Salmon River Mountains, an Idaho mining company, Perpetua Resources, is proposing a vast open-pit gold mine that would also produce 115 million pounds of antimony — an element that may be critical to manufacturing the high-capacity liquid-metal batteries of the future.
  2. In quality synergistic additives in a composition use oxide antimonies.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin antimonium, attested in the 11th century; see also the Wikipedia section.

This word in other languages

antimonio(Español)antimoine(Français)Antimon(Deutsch)antimônio(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "antimony"?
"antimony" is spelled A-N-T-I-M-O-N-Y. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/.
What does "antimony" mean?
As a noun, "antimony" means: A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal.
How do you pronounce "antimony"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "antimony" is /ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "antimony"?
From Medieval Latin antimonium, attested in the 11th century; see also the Wikipedia section. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "antimony", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Anheuser#50,355appraise#50,359ambushes#50,352armature#50,362

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list