ante
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#261
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ante is aSpanishprep. It means: Delante de algo o alguien. Pronounced [ˈãn̪t̪e]. It ranks #261 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with at and art.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | [ˈãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ante is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈãn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #261 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for ante, with forms such as "anet", "annte", and "antte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "art", "ave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ante, spelled A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Delante de algo o alguien.
- 2Comparado con algo o alguien.
- 3En presencia de algo o alguien.
- 4Con anterioridad o preferencia.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anet,annte,antte,atne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ante
Misspelling Variants of "ante"
Frequency rank: #261 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: