antan

\ɑ̃.tɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.tɑ̃\/ adv

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The verdict

“antan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,208
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’année dernière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-antan · antan · French

antan · rank #19,208 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,208
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH animées

Nearest frequency peer: animées (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « antan »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « antan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

antan vs ATA
0% similar
antan vs anti
60% similar
antan vs ante
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for antan
PropertyValue
Headwordantan
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\ɑ̃.tɑ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,208
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « antan »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).antanse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « animées » (#19,207), « apparaissait » (#19,209), « améliorant » (#19,206). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « antan » est au #19,208. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around antan (IPA \ɑ̃.tɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #19,208 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for antan, with forms such as "anatn", "anntan", and "antann". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ATA", "anti", "ante", 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. The correct French form is antan, spelled A-N-T-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    L’année dernière.
  2. 2
    Autrefois.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how antan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avec trois brins de sauge, une figue d’antan.
  2. A l'instar de sa localisation, une vieille bâtisse fougeraise, la Tivabro est décorée à la mode Bretagne d’antan, avec goût et sans folklore tartignole.

Synonyms

anciennementautrefoisdans le tempsjadis

This word in other languages

yesteryear(English)antaño(Español)einstig(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • anatn
  • anntan
  • antann
  • antna
  • anttan
  • atnan
  • natan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

anatn2anntan1antann1antna2anttan1atnan2natan2
Edit distance from "antan"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "antan"?
"antan" is spelled A-N-T-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.tɑ̃\.
What does "antan" mean?
As an adverb, "antan" means: L’année dernière.
What words are commonly confused with "antan"?
"antan" is commonly confused with "ATA", "anti", "ante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "antan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "antan" is \ɑ̃.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "antan" come from?
"antan" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "antan", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Alter#19,203avide#19,213brive#19,224burns#19,226

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

balise7 variantsvalse7 variantsspots7 variantssaurai7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list