antihéros
\ɑ̃.ti.e.ʁo\
The verdict
“antihéros” is uncommon French (frequency #79,050 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage principal d’une œuvre de fiction dénué des caractéristiques positives du héros traditionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antiheros · antihéros · French
antihéros · rank #79,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,050
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antihistamini…
Nearest frequency peer: antihistaminiques (-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 « antihéros »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anchor
anchor
20,954 corpus weight
- animalières
animalières
20,953 corpus weight
- antihistami…
antihistaminiques
20,952 corpus weight
- antihéros
antihéros
20,951 corpus weight
- antinucléai…
antinucléaires
20,950 corpus weight
- antipsychot…
antipsychotiques
20,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « antihéros » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antihéros |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.e.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antihéros » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antihéros is uncommon French at frequency #79,050 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ti.e.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage principal d’une œuvre de fiction dénué des caractéristiques positives du héros traditionnel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antihéros, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is antihéros, spelled A-N-T-I-H-É-R-O-S.
Definition
- 1Personnage principal d’une œuvre de fiction dénué des caractéristiques positives du héros traditionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antihéros appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le héros déceptif est un antihéros plus ancien et figure dans nombre de contes populaires ; c’est un héros qui, par sa propre faute ou du fait des circonstances, ne parvient pas à accomplir sa quête.
Ce n’est pas parce que le roman est moderne qu’il se définit nécessairement comme un antihéros mais, rappelle G. Durand, c’est bien parce qu’il est au fond un antihéros que l’on parlera de roman moderne.
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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