antica
\an.ˈti.ka\
The verdict
“antica” is uncommon French (frequency #80,863 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,863
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de antico.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antica · antica · French
antica · rank #80,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,863
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Angeline
Nearest frequency peer: Angeline (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « antica »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anaérobies
anaérobies
19,141 corpus weight
- Angeline
Angeline
19,139 corpus weight
- antica
antica
19,138 corpus weight
- anticlinal
anticlinal
19,137 corpus weight
- antiennes
antiennes
19,136 corpus weight
- antonyme
antonyme
19,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « antica » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \an.ˈti.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antica » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antica is uncommon French at frequency #80,863 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \an.ˈti.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de antico.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for antica, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is antica, spelled A-N-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de antico.
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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