antique

\ɑ̃.tik\

/\ɑ̃.tik\/ adj

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The verdict

“antique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,630
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ayant existé dans l’antiquité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-antique · antique · French

antique · rank #5,630 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,630
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aire

Nearest frequency peer: aire (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « antique »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « antique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

antique vs attaque
71% similar
antique vs attique
86% similar
antique vs arctique
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for antique
PropertyValue
Headwordantique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɑ̃.tik\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,630
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « antique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.antiquese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aire » (#5,629), « arrêts » (#5,631), « agenda » (#5,628). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « antique » est au #5,630. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around antique (IPA \ɑ̃.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,630 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for antique, with forms such as "anitque", "anntique", and "antiqeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "attaque", "attique", "arctique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is antique, spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ayant existé dans l’antiquité.
  2. 2
    Très ancien.
  3. 3
    Se dit d’une probité ou d’une vertu exceptionnelle.
  4. 4
    Dont l’usage, le goût ou la mode sont passés depuis longtemps.
  5. 5
    Qui a un style semblable à celui des œuvres de l’antiquité.
  6. 6
    Se dit d’une nuance de la couleur rouge.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how antique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et ce ne fut pas une lente décadence qui surprit le monde européanisé ; les civilisations antiques pourrirent et s’effritèrent ; la civilisation européanisée sauta d’un coup, pour ainsi dire.
  2. Le propre de la culture antique est sa tournure foncièrement laïque.

Antonyms

moderne

This word in other languages

antique(English)antiguo(Español)antik(Deutsch)antigo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • anitque
  • anntique
  • antiqeu
  • antiqque
  • antiuqe
  • antqiue
  • anttique
  • atnique
  • natique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

anitque2anntique1antiqeu2antiqque1antiuqe2antqiue2anttique1atnique2
Edit distance from "antique"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "antique"?
"antique" is spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.tik\.
What does "antique" mean?
As an adjective, "antique" means: Ayant existé dans l’antiquité.
What words are commonly confused with "antique"?
"antique" is commonly confused with "attaque", "attique", "arctique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "antique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "antique" is \ɑ̃.tik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "antique" come from?
"antique" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "antique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list