Antony
\ɑ̃.tɔ.ni\
The verdict
“Antony” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,959
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antony · Antony · French
Antony · rank #26,959 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,959
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antillais
Nearest frequency peer: antillais (-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 « Antony »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Amédée
Amédée
73,044 corpus weight
- antillais
antillais
73,043 corpus weight
- Antony
Antony
73,042 corpus weight
- appartiens
appartiens
73,041 corpus weight
- appliquait
appliquait
73,040 corpus weight
- apprise
apprise
73,039 corpus weight
What this shows « Antony » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antony |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Antony »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Antony (IPA \ɑ̃.tɔ.ni\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,959 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Antony, with forms such as "anntony", "anotny", and "antnoy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Aston", "Anton", "antan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Antony, spelled A-N-T-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Antony appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une seule idée lui restait, une idée fixe comme en ont tous les ivrognes : « Aller retrouver à Orsay Trilby et ces demoiselles ! aller à Orsay le plus tôt possible ... en passant par Antony. » Telle était la phrase qu'il se répétait sans cesse , […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anntony
- anotny
- antnoy
- antonny
- antonyy
- antoyn
- anttony
- atnony
- natony
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Antony - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Antony", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).