antonomase
\ɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ.maz\
The verdict
“antonomase” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de style par laquelle un nom commun ou une périphrase désigne un nom propre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antonomase · antonomase · French
antonomase · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antonomase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ.maz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « antonomase » en français
Rare enough to double-check
antonomase is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tɔ.nɔ.maz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antonomase, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is antonomase, spelled A-N-T-O-N-O-M-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Figure de style par laquelle un nom commun ou une périphrase désigne un nom propre.
- 2Inversement, figure de style par laquelle un nom propre est utilisé comme un nom commun.
- 3Par lexicalisation de cette figure de style, transformation d’un nom propre en nom commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antonomase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se souvint tout à coup d’une vieille chronique où il avait, pour flétrir, stigmatiser, juvénaliser les comportements bourgeois, […] projeté le feu rouge des catachrèses les plus imprévues, des synecdoches les plus arbitraires, des antonomases les plus follement tirées par les cheveux, […].
« L’Orateur romain » est une antonomase pour désigner Cicéron.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.