antipape
\ɑ̃.ti.pap\
The verdict
“antipape” is uncommon French (frequency #85,467 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,467
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétendant non reconnu par l'Église catholique romaine au titre de pape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antipape · antipape · French
antipape · rank #85,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,467
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Antiochus
Nearest frequency peer: Antiochus (-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 « antipape »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- annexions
annexions
14,538 corpus weight
- annonçais
annonçais
14,537 corpus weight
- antimilitar…
antimilitariste
14,536 corpus weight
- Antiochus
Antiochus
14,535 corpus weight
- antipape
antipape
14,534 corpus weight
- apposant
apposant
14,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « antipape » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antipape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.pap\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antipape » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antipape is uncommon French at frequency #85,467 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ti.pap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétendant non reconnu par l'Église catholique romaine au titre de pape.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antipape, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is antipape, spelled A-N-T-I-P-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Prétendant non reconnu par l'Église catholique romaine au titre de pape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antipape appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'après les frères de Sainte-Marthe, un moine de l'ordre de Saint-Benoit aurait occupé, en 1421, le siège de Bethléem. Il s'agit ici ([…]), soit d'un prélat in partibus de Bethléem de Judée, soit d'un évêque espagnol de la création de l’antipape Benoit XIII.
Il ne cède ni devant lʼantipape dʼAvignon, ni devant le concile de Pise (1409), mais accepte finalement sa destitution par le concile de Constance au profit de Martin V.
Synonyms
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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