Angela
/ˈænd͡ʒələ/
"angela" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Angela” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,863
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-angela · Angela · English
Angela · rank #6,863 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,863
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anchor
Nearest frequency peer: anchor (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Angela”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- algorithm
algorithm
93,141 corpus weight
- altered
altered
93,140 corpus weight
- anchor
anchor
93,139 corpus weight
- Angela
Angela
93,138 corpus weight
- arch
arch
93,136 corpus weight
- associations
associations
93,135 corpus weight
What this shows “Angela” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Angela |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈænd͡ʒələ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Angela”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Angela (IPA /ˈænd͡ʒələ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,863 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Ancient Greek.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Angela, with forms such as "agnela", "anegla", and "angeal". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anger", "angle", "anglo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”). The correct English form is Angela, spelled A-N-G-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Angela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.
And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway. ibid., page 39: The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is Angela? I didn't know the Iri…
Etymology
Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agnela
- anegla
- angeal
- angella
- anggela
- anglea
- anngela
- nagela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Angela - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).