antérieure
\ɑ̃.te.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“antérieure” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,989
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de antérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anterieure · antérieure · French
antérieure · rank #10,989 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,989
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animateurs
Nearest frequency peer: animateurs (-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 « antérieure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alla
alla
89,015 corpus weight
- amicale
amicale
89,014 corpus weight
- animateurs
animateurs
89,013 corpus weight
- antérieure
antérieure
89,012 corpus weight
- arche
arche
89,011 corpus weight
- argile
argile
89,010 corpus weight
What this shows « antérieure » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antérieure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.te.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « antérieure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around antérieure (IPA \ɑ̃.te.ʁjœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,989 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de antérieur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for antérieure, with forms such as "anntérieure", "anterieure", and "antréieure". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "antérieurs", "antérieures", "antérieur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is antérieure, spelled A-N-T-É-R-I-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de antérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how antérieure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès qu’un diseur de bonne aventure vous explique minutieusement les faits connus de vous seul, dans votre vie antérieure, il peut vous dire les événements que produiront les causes existantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anntérieure
- anterieure
- antréieure
- anttérieure
- antéireure
- antéreiure
- antérierue
- antérieuer
- antérieurre
- antériuere
- antérrieure
- anétrieure
- atnérieure
- natérieure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antérieure - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).