antienne
\ɑ̃.tjɛn\
The verdict
“antienne” is uncommon French (frequency #52,485 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,485
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de verset que le prêtre ou le chantre dit, en tout ou en partie, dans l’office de l’église avant un psaume ou une hymne, et qui se répète après tout entier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antienne · antienne · French
antienne · rank #52,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,485
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anticorruption
Nearest frequency peer: anticorruption (-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 « antienne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antagonismes
antagonismes
47,519 corpus weight
- anticipent
anticipent
47,518 corpus weight
- anticorrupt…
anticorruption
47,517 corpus weight
- antienne
antienne
47,516 corpus weight
- apathique
apathique
47,515 corpus weight
- apel
apel
47,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « antienne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tjɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antienne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antienne is uncommon French at frequency #52,485 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tjɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
antienne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is antienne, spelled A-N-T-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de verset que le prêtre ou le chantre dit, en tout ou en partie, dans l’office de l’église avant un psaume ou une hymne, et qui se répète après tout entier.
- 2Propos, slogan, refrain[…], que l’on répète sans cesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antienne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nous apprenait à servir la messe du grand et du petit côté, à chanter les antiennes, à faire des génuflexions, à encenser élégamment, ce qui est très difficile.
Au milieu d’eux, se trouvaient les chantres, en chapes de soie rouge, qui avaient commencé l’antienne, à pleine voix.
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).