Angola

/æŋˈɡəʊlə/

//æŋˈɡəʊlə// name

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"angola" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Angola” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,481
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.

Corpus desk

Index EN-angola · Angola · English

Angola · rank #18,481 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,481
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH angrily

Nearest frequency peer: angrily (+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 “Angola”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “Angola” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Angola vs ANOVA
17% similar
Angola vs angora
67% similar
Angola vs angular
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Angola
PropertyValue
HeadwordAngola
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA/æŋˈɡəʊlə/
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,481
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Angola”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Angolalands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “angrily” (#18,482), “amnesia” (#18,479), “appellate” (#18,483). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “Angola” is #18,481. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Angola (IPA /æŋˈɡəʊlə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,481 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Angola, with forms such as "agnola", "anggola", and "angloa". 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, "ANOVA", "angora", "angular", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisiana State P… The correct English form is Angola, spelled A-N-G-O-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
  2. 2
    A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
  3. 3
    A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
  4. 4
    The Louisiana State Penitentiary.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
  6. 6
    A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
  7. 7
    An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
  8. 8
    A village in Erie County, New York, United States.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Angola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, or FCI, and the Social P…
  2. “Who wanna get stuck in Angola with Lana Lee? She was bad enough on the outside. Shit.”

Etymology

From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agnola
  • anggola
  • angloa
  • angoal
  • angolla
  • anngola
  • anogla
  • nagola

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Angola - 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.

agnola2anggola1angloa2angoal2angolla1anngola1anogla2nagola2
Edit distance from "Angola"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Angola"?
"Angola" is spelled A-N-G-O-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is /æŋˈɡəʊlə/.
What does "Angola" mean?
As a proper noun, "Angola" means: A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
What words are commonly confused with "Angola"?
"Angola" is commonly confused with "ANOVA", "angora", "angular". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Angola"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Angola" is /æŋˈɡəʊlə/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "Angola"?
From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisia... See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Angola", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list