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antiquark

noun

antiquark is a noun meaning “The antiparticle of a quark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-A-R-K, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antiquark is antiquarks.

What does antiquark mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The antiparticle of a quark.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of antiquark

  • antiquarks plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is antiquark?

Antiquark appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).

Antiquark in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the antiparticle of a quark:

LanguageWords
Frenchantiquark
GermanAntiquark
Portugueseantiquark

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 antiquark come from?

From anti- + quark.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).