ange
\ɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“ange” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,053 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,053
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Créature purement spirituelle, qu’on représente sous figure humaine, avec des ailes, et qui désigne tantôt un envoyé céleste, tantôt un pur esprit intermédiaire entre Dieu et l’humanité.
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 | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ange” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ange is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,053 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ange, with forms such as "agne", "aneg", and "angge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ans", "axe", "are", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ange, spelled A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Créature purement spirituelle, qu’on représente sous figure humaine, avec des ailes, et qui désigne tantôt un envoyé céleste, tantôt un pur esprit intermédiaire entre Dieu et l’humanité.
- 2Créature purement spirituelle, qu’on représente sous figure humaine, avec des ailes, et qui désigne tantôt un envoyé céleste, tantôt un pur esprit intermédiaire entre Dieu et l’humanité.
- 3Créature purement spirituelle, qu’on représente sous figure humaine, avec des ailes, et qui désigne tantôt un envoyé céleste, tantôt un pur esprit intermédiaire entre Dieu et l’humanité.
- 4Personne d’une piété extraordinaire, d’une grande vertu, d’une extrême douceur.
- 5Personne d’une grande utilité, d’une grande influence.
- 6Mot affectueux s’adressant aux personnes des deux sexes.
- 7Meuble représentant un être humain avec des ailes dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pied, de front, les mains jointes ou tenant un autre meuble, les ailes éployées vers le chef. Parfois, une auréole est ajoutée. À rapprocher de angelot, archange, chérubin et saint.
- 8Support ou tenant représentant un être humain avec des ailes utilisé comme ornement extérieur d’armoiries.
- 9Représentation artistique ou décorative d’un ange biblique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agne,aneg,angge,annge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ange - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ange”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃ʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ans” - see the side-by-side comparison. ange vs ans
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French 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.