ange
/ɑ̃ʒ/
The verdict
“ange” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,120) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,120
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ángel.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ange · ange · Spanish
ange · rank #40,120 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,120
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Andrómeda
Nearest frequency peer: Andrómeda (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “ange”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ampolla
ampolla
59,885 corpus weight
- Andrómeda
Andrómeda
59,882 corpus weight
- ange
ange
59,881 corpus weight
- anno
anno
59,880 corpus weight
- anotan
anotan
59,878 corpus weight
- antidrogas
antidrogas
59,877 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ange” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | ange |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɑ̃ʒ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ange”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ange is neighbouring look-alikes ("año", "ave", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɑ̃ʒ/. Frequency #40,120 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ange, with forms such as "aneg", "angge", and "annge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "año", "ave", "are", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ange, spelled A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ángel.
- 2Ángel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aneg
- angge
- annge
- nage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ange - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ange", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).