Angeline
"angeline" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Angeline” is uncommon English (frequency #67,216 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,216
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-angeline · Angeline · English
Angeline · rank #67,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,216
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH annotate
Nearest frequency peer: annotate (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Angeline”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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altarpiece
32,788 corpus weight
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ambushing
32,787 corpus weight
- Angeline
Angeline
32,785 corpus weight
- annotate
annotate
32,784 corpus weight
- anther
anther
32,783 corpus weight
- arak
arak
32,780 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Angeline” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Angeline |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Angeline” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Angeline is uncommon English at frequency #67,216 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from French.".
Angeline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Angeline. The correct English form is Angeline, spelled A-N-G-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from French.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Angeline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Boughton had christened her, as I said, but I laid my hand on her just to bless her, and I could feel her pulse, her warmth, the damp of her hair. The Lord said, 'Their angels in Heaven always see the face of my Father in Heaven' (Matthew 18:10). That's why Boughton named her Angeline.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Angeline.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).