ange déchu
\ɑ̃ʒ de.ʃy\
The verdict
“ange déchu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ex-ange, exilé ou banni du paradis en punition de sa désobéissance ou de sa rébellion contre Dieu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ange déchu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ʒ de.ʃy\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ange déchu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ange déchu is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃ʒ de.ʃy\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ange déchu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ange déchu, spelled A-N-G-E- -D-É-C-H-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ex-ange, exilé ou banni du paradis en punition de sa désobéissance ou de sa rébellion contre Dieu.
- 2Personne n’ayant plus le prestige dont elle a pu bénéficier par le passé.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is A-N-G-E- -D-É-C-H-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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