antenne
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,423
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
antenne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Longue vergue qui s’attache obliquement au mât, pour soutenir une voile triangulaire. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tɛn\. It ranks #5,423 in French word frequency. Often confused with attente and Antoine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for antenne is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,423 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for antenne, with forms such as "anetnne", "anntenne", and "antene". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "attente", "Antoine", "Ardenne", 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 French form is antenne, spelled A-N-T-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Longue vergue qui s’attache obliquement au mât, pour soutenir une voile triangulaire.
- 2Élément secondaire d'un ensemble quelconque qui dérive de la structure principale et qui y reste liée.
- 3Rang de futailles placées les unes sur les autres dans la cale.
- 4Appendice articulé en forme de corne, que les insectes portent sur la tête, et que l’on croit être pour eux l’organe principal du tact.
- 5Ce qui permet aux personnes de percevoir intuitivement ou intellectuellement leur environnement.
- 6Appareillage métallique passif isolé de la terre et relié à des appareils de radiocommunication, destiné à émettre ou recevoir des ondes radio.
- 7Chaîne de radio ou de télévision.
- 8Implantation locale d’une organisation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anetnne,anntenne,antene,antenen,antnene,anttenne,atnenne,natenne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for antenne
Misspelling Variants of "antenne"
Frequency rank: #5,423 in French
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