antique
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "antique", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "antique" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "antique" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
antique is anEnglishadj. It means: Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome. Pronounced /ˌanˈtiːk/. It ranks #8,755 in English word frequency. Often confused with antiques and Antigua.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antique |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˌanˈtiːk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for antique is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌanˈtiːk/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,755 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for antique, with forms such as "anitque", "anntique", and "antiqeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "antiques", "Antigua", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is antique, spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
- 2Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
- 3Designating a style of type.
- 4Embossed without gilt.
- 5Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
- 6Synonym of antic, specifically
- 7Synonym of antic, specifically:
Etymology
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anitque,anntique,antiqeu,antiqque,antiuqe,antqiue,anttique,atnique,natique
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for antique
Misspelling Variants of "antique"
Frequency rank: #8,755 in English
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