antihoraire
The verdict
“antihoraire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qualifie le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antihoraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.ɔ.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “antihoraire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for antihoraire is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ti.ɔ.ʁɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qualifie le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for antihoraire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is antihoraire, spelled A-N-T-I-H-O-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre.
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Using “antihoraire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-N-T-I-H-O-R-A-I-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.ti.ɔ.ʁɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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