AngersvsangryWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Angers is a name, angry is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Angers” is a name and “angry” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#32,274
“Angers” frequency rank
#2,191
“angry” frequency rank
34465
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Angers angry
Definition A city, the capital of Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France. Displaying or feeling anger.

Letter map: Angers vs angry

Shared letters muted; letters that set Angers and angry apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Angers runs 6 letters (VCCVCC) against angry's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
Angers
5 ch
angry

Part-of-speech tell for Angers / angry

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Angers is aname and angryanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Angers is recorded at frequency rank #32,274, classified as aname. angry is at rank #2,191, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 34465, this pair ranks #320,533 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Angers vs angry

Shared letters: agnr. Private to "Angers": es. Private to "angry": y.

"Angers" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC  ·  "angry" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Angers ← agners · anegrs · angerrs · angerss · angesr · anggers · angres · anngers
  • angry ← agnry · anggry · angrry · angryy · angyr · anngry · anrgy · nagry

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Angers" and "angry" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Angers" is a name and "angry" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Angers" or "angry" show up more?
"angry" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,191 in our English list, against #32,274 for "Angers". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Angers" and "angry".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Angers" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "angry" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #320,533 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Angers" and "angry" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Angell vs Angers". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #320,533 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list