Antilles néerlandaises
\ɑ̃.tij ne.ɛʁ.lɑ̃.dɛz\
The verdict
“Antilles néerlandaises” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble de cinq îles des Antilles qui dépendent des Pays-Bas : Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Saint-Eustache (Sint-Eustasius ou Statia en néerlandais) et la partie méridionale de Saint-Martin (Sint-Maart...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antilles néerlandaises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tij ne.ɛʁ.lɑ̃.dɛz\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Antilles néerlandaises” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Antilles néerlandaises is 22 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tij ne.ɛʁ.lɑ̃.dɛz\. 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: "Ensemble de cinq îles des Antilles qui dépendent des Pays-Bas : Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Saint-Eustache (Sint-Eustasius ou Statia en néerlandais) et la partie méridionale de Saint-Martin (Sint-Maart...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Antilles néerlandaises 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 Antilles néerlandaises, spelled A-N-T-I-L-L-E-S- -N-É-E-R-L-A-N-D-A-I-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de cinq îles des Antilles qui dépendent des Pays-Bas : Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Saint-Eustache (Sint-Eustasius ou Statia en néerlandais) et la partie méridionale de Saint-Martin (Sint-Maarten).
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- The one correct French spelling is A-N-T-I-L-L-E-S- -N-É-E-R-L-A-N-D-A-I-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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