Antonov
"antonov" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Antonov” is uncommon English (frequency #57,858 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,858
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Антонов (Antonov).
Corpus desk
Index EN-antonov · Antonov · English
Antonov · rank #57,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,858
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anticoagulant
Nearest frequency peer: anticoagulant (-2 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 “Antonov”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anecdotally
anecdotally
42,146 corpus weight
- anticoagula…
anticoagulant
42,145 corpus weight
- Antonov
Antonov
42,143 corpus weight
- apprehending
apprehending
42,141 corpus weight
- Aquitaine
Aquitaine
42,139 corpus weight
- arabica
arabica
42,138 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Antonov” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antonov |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Antonov” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Antonov is uncommon English at frequency #57,858 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Антонов (Antonov).".
Antonov doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Bulgarian Антонов (Antonov). The correct English form is Antonov, spelled A-N-T-O-N-O-V.
Definition
- 1A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Антонов (Antonov).
Etymology
Borrowed from Bulgarian Антонов (Antonov).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).