antiquité

\ɑ̃.ti.ki.te\

/\ɑ̃.ti.ki.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“antiquité” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,266
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est antique ; ancienneté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-antiquite · antiquité · French

antiquité · rank #6,266 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,266
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alternance

Nearest frequency peer: alternance (-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 « antiquité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « antiquité » 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).

antiquité vs antiquités
90% similar
antiquité vs antique
67% similar
antiquité vs antiquaire
70% similar

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

Key facts for antiquité
PropertyValue
Headwordantiquité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ti.ki.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,266
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « antiquité »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alternance » (#6,265), « Alexis » (#6,264), « adorable » (#6,263). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « antiquité » est au #6,266. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around antiquité (IPA \ɑ̃.ti.ki.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,266 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for antiquité, with forms such as "anitquité", "anntiquité", and "antiqiuté". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "antiquités", "antique", "antiquaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is antiquité, spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de ce qui est antique ; ancienneté.
  2. 2
    Ancienneté reculée.
  3. 3
    Monument, chose qui nous reste de l’Antiquité.
  4. 4
    Objets plus ou moins anciens.
  5. 5
    Vieillerie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une dame considérable étant entrée, madame de Serpierre dit à Lucien qu’elle allait le présenter, et, sans attendre sa réponse, elle se mit à lui expliquer l’antiquité de la maison de Furonière, à laquelle appartenait cette dame, qui entendait très bien tout ce qu’on disait d’elle.
  2. Je n’ai rien nié, j’ai expliqué. Je n’ai pas eu besoin de récuser les évangiles ni la tradition chrétienne, de supposer des interpolations, des anachronismes, des mensonges dans cette haute et respectable antiquité du christianisme. J’ai tout accepté, et j’ai seulement expliqué.

This word in other languages

antiquity(English)antigüedad(Español)Antike(Deutsch)antiguidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • anitquité
  • anntiquité
  • antiqiuté
  • antiqquité
  • antiquite
  • antiquitté
  • antiquiét
  • antiqutié
  • antiuqité
  • antqiuité
  • anttiquité
  • atniquité
  • natiquité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antiquité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

anitquité2anntiquité1antiqiuté2antiqquité1antiquite1antiquitté1antiquiét2antiqutié2
Edit distance from "antiquité"

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 "antiquité"?
"antiquité" is spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ti.ki.te\.
What does "antiquité" mean?
As a noun, "antiquité" means: État de ce qui est antique ; ancienneté.
What words are commonly confused with "antiquité"?
"antiquité" is commonly confused with "antiquités", "antique", "antiquaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "antiquité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "antiquité" is \ɑ̃.ti.ki.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "antiquité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

étiquette#6,262éclairage#6,260concevoir#6,278consensus#6,280

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

transmis13 variantssymboles13 variantsexclusion13 variantsextrêmes13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list