Angers

name

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The verdict

“Angers” is uncommon German (frequency #75,352 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,352
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt im französischen Département Maine-et-Loire

Corpus desk

Index DE-angers · Angers · German

Angers · rank #75,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,352
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH angefochtene

Nearest frequency peer: angefochtene (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Angers“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Angers“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Angers
PropertyValue
HeadwordAngers
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#75,352
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Angers“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Angersfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „angefochtene“ (#75,351), „angetretenen“ (#75,353), „Anfangszeiten“ (#75,350). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „Angers“ bei #75,352. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Angers is uncommon German at frequency #75,352 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt im französischen Département Maine-et-Loire".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Angers, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Angers, spelled A-N-G-E-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Stadt im französischen Département Maine-et-Loire

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Bei der Entgleisung eines Zugs auf der Eisenbahnbrücke in Angers stürzt ein Personenwagen in die Loire.“
  2. „Der größte Kinderschänderprozess der französischen Geschichte mit 65 Angeklagten und 45 meist mit ihnen verwandten Opfern vom Säuglingsalter bis zu zwölf Jahren geht in Angers zu Ende.“

This word in other languages

Angers(Français)

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Angers"?
"Angers" is spelled A-N-G-E-R-S.
What does "Angers" mean?
As a proper noun, "Angers" means: Stadt im französischen Département Maine-et-Loire
What language does "Angers" come from?
"Angers" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Apfels#75,367Ascher#75,372Aspern#75,373aufhob#75,383

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list