angled
"angled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“angled” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #20,286 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #20,286
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arranged so as to form an angle.
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 | angled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “angled” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for angled is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #20,286 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for angled, with forms such as "agnled", "angeld", and "anggled". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "ankle", "anglo", "argued", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is angled, spelled A-N-G-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Arranged so as to form an angle.
- 2Forming an angle of a particular type.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agnled,angeld,anggled,anglde,angledd,anglled,anlged,anngled,nagled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of angled - 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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Using “angled”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-G-L-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ankle” - see the side-by-side comparison. angled vs ankle
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.