strangling angel of children

noun

"strangling-angel-of-children" is a 25-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“strangling angel of children” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
28
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The disease diphtheria.

Corpus desk

Index EN-strangling-angel-of-chil · strangling angel of children · English

strangling angel of children · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 28 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for strangling angel of children
PropertyValue
Headwordstrangling angel of children
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “strangling angel of children” sits in English frequency

strangling angel of children falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

strangling angel of children is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The disease diphtheria.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for strangling angel of children, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood. The correct English form is strangling angel of children, spelled S-T-R-A-N-G-L-I-N-G- -A-N-G-E-L- -O-F- -C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    The disease diphtheria.

Etymology

From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "strangling angel of children"?
"strangling angel of children" is spelled S-T-R-A-N-G-L-I-N-G- -A-N-G-E-L- -O-F- -C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.
What does "strangling angel of children" mean?
As a noun, "strangling angel of children" means: The disease diphtheria.
What is the origin of the word "strangling angel of children"?
From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list