Past Tense of
antic
anticced
Regular Consonant Doubling
📄 Regular form · Consonant Doubling

Base Form Antic

5Letters
2Syllables
2Vowels
3Consonants
AStarts
CEnds

Past Tense Anticced

8Letters
3Syllables
3Vowels
5Consonants
AStarts
DEnds

How to Form the Past Tense of "antic"

This verb follows the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) pattern. The final consonant is doubled before adding -ed to maintain the short vowel sound.

Grammar Tips

  • Double the final consonant before adding -ed.

Common Mistakes

  • Do not forget to double the final consonant.
Frequently Asked Questions

Is antic regular or irregular?

Antic is regular. It follows the Consonant Doubling rule.

How do you use anticced in a sentence?

Use past time markers: "Yesterday, she anticced to the store."

Does anticced change in negative sentences?

No. Use "did not antic" (not "did not anticced").

About the past tense of antic

The verb antic follows the standard English past tense conjugation rule. When forming the past tense, antic becomes anticced. This follows the Consonant Doubling pattern, which is one of the most common conjugation rules in English.

Understanding why antic becomes anticced helps with spelling and pronunciation. This verb follows the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) pattern. The final consonant is doubled before adding -ed to maintain the short vowel sound.

When using anticced in writing, remember that it functions as a past tense verb and typically appears with time markers like yesterday, last week, or ago. For example: "Yesterday, she anticced to the store." The past tense form does not change based on the subject — I anticced, you anticced, he/she anticced, we anticced, they anticced.