antsy
/ˈæn.tsi/
"antsy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“antsy” is uncommon English (frequency #51,536 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,536
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Restless, apprehensive and fidgety.
Corpus desk
Index EN-antsy · antsy · English
antsy · rank #51,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,536
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Allard
Nearest frequency peer: Allard (-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 “antsy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aintree
Aintree
48,470 corpus weight
- Alanis
Alanis
48,468 corpus weight
- Allard
Allard
48,467 corpus weight
- antsy
antsy
48,465 corpus weight
- arabidopsis
arabidopsis
48,461 corpus weight
- Argentinean
Argentinean
48,459 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “antsy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antsy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈæn.tsi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “antsy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
antsy is uncommon English at frequency #51,536 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈæn.tsi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Restless, apprehensive and fidgety.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antsy, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ants + -y, as in ants in one's pants. First noted as a rural Southern US figure of speech in the early 20th century. The correct English form is antsy, spelled A-N-T-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Restless, apprehensive and fidgety.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antsy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The children were antsy and worried […]
For hating it so much, she's remarkably nomadic. In the last four years, she's moved at least eight times. "I get very antsy," she explains. "I don't like to be in one place for too long. But I settle in each time. I do like a house to be a home."
Etymology
From ants + -y, as in ants in one's pants. First noted as a rural Southern US figure of speech in the early 20th century.
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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