antitank
"antitank" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“antitank” is uncommon English (frequency #68,012 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,012
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of weapons or tactics, designed for thwarting or (especially) attacking tanks or other armored fighting vehicles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-antitank · antitank · English
antitank · rank #68,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,012
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH antihero
Nearest frequency peer: antihero (-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 “antitank”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alim
alim
31,995 corpus weight
- aniline
aniline
31,993 corpus weight
- anklet
anklet
31,992 corpus weight
- anteater
anteater
31,991 corpus weight
- antihero
antihero
31,990 corpus weight
- antitank
antitank
31,989 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “antitank” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antitank |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “antitank” in English
Rare enough to double-check
antitank is uncommon English at frequency #68,012 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of weapons or tactics, designed for thwarting or (especially) attacking tanks or other armored fighting vehicles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antitank, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + tank. The correct English form is antitank, spelled A-N-T-I-T-A-N-K.
Definition
- 1Of weapons or tactics, designed for thwarting or (especially) attacking tanks or other armored fighting vehicles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how antitank appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A TOW missile is an antitank weapon capable of killing everyone in a tank from great distance.
Etymology
From anti- + tank.
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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