Antwerp
\ˈæn.twəp\
The verdict
“Antwerp” is uncommon French (frequency #68,807 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,807
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anvers (ville de Belgique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-antwerp · Antwerp · French
Antwerp · rank #68,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,807
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antinucléaire
Nearest frequency peer: antinucléaire (-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 « Antwerp »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anonymisati…
anonymisation
31,197 corpus weight
- antigel
antigel
31,196 corpus weight
- antinucléai…
antinucléaire
31,195 corpus weight
- Antwerp
Antwerp
31,194 corpus weight
- Anzin
Anzin
31,192 corpus weight
- APD
APD
31,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Antwerp » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antwerp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈæn.twəp\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Antwerp » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Antwerp is uncommon French at frequency #68,807 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈæn.twəp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Antwerp, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Antwerp, spelled A-N-T-W-E-R-P.
Definition
- 1Anvers (ville de Belgique).
- 2Anvers (province de Belgique).
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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