antipode
/ˈæn.tɪ.poʊd/noun
antipode is a noun meaning “Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-O-D-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antipode is antipodes.
What does antipode mean?
noun
- 1
Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.
- 2
The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antipode?
- /ˈæn.tɪ.poʊd/
Antipode has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-antipode.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antipode
- antipodes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antipode?
Antipode appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antipode in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense something directly opposite:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antipode come from?
Back-formation from antipodes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).