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angelique

UK /ænd͡ʒəˈliːk/noun

angelique is a noun meaning “A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially garden angelica (Angelica archangelica)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-G-E-L-I-Q-U-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Angelique, the name). The plural of angelique is angéliques or angeliques.

What does angelique mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially garden angelica (Angelica archangelica).

  2. 2

    Alternative form of angélique.

noun

as angélique
  1. 1

    A plucked bowl lute with two necks and most often sixteen strings, played in the manner of a harp, and popular in Baroque Europe.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce angelique?

  • UK /ænd͡ʒəˈliːk/

Angelique has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of angelique

  • angéliques plural
  • angeliques plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is angelique?

Angelique appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Angelique, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Angelique in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense bowl lute:

LanguageWords
Frenchangélique

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does angelique come from?

From French angélique. Doublet of angelic and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).