antennes

Name: antennes, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɑ̃.tɛn\

/\ɑ̃.tɛn\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“antennes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,273
frequency rank, French: 6,727
“A” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de antenne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-antennes · antennes · French

antennes · rank #10,273 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-MID #10,273
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,727
PHOTO-FINISH avancement

Nearest frequency peer: avancement (+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.

adapte

89,732
allées

89,731
amélie

89,730
antennes

89,728
avancement

89,727
bassins

89,725

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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

antennes vs attentes

75% similar

antennes vs Ardennes

63% similar

antennes vs antenne

88% similar

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

Key facts for antennes
Property	Value
Headword	antennes
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ɑ̃.tɛn\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#10,273
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « antennes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.antennesse place ici:

#10,273

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « avancement » (#10,274), « amélie » (#10,271), « allées » (#10,270). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « antennes » est au #10,273. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around antennes (IPA \ɑ̃.tɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,273 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de antenne.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for antennes, with forms such as "anetnnes", "anntennes", and "antenens". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "attentes", "Ardennes", "antenne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is antennes, spelled A-N-T-E-N-N-E-S.

Definition

1
Pluriel de antenne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

À travers les baies vitrées de ce dernier, nous pouvions voir cependant, entre une route désaffectée, de hauts grillages et une sorte de rampe de parking protégée d’un blindage (un des blockhaus de sécurité) un gros camion tôlé surmonté d’aériens divers ; depuis de très hautes antennes HF, jusqu’aux minipointes inox des SHF, en passant par les intermédiai…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

anetnnes
anntennes
antenens
antenes
antenness
antennse
antnenes
anttennes
atnennes
natennes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antennes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "antennes"

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 "antennes"?

"antennes" is spelled A-N-T-E-N-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.tɛn\.

What does "antennes" mean?

As a noun, "antennes" means: Pluriel de antenne.

What words are commonly confused with "antennes"?

"antennes" is commonly confused with "attentes", "Ardennes", "antenne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "antennes"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "antennes" is \ɑ̃.tɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "antennes" come from?

"antennes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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