anger

\ɑ̃.ʒe\

/\ɑ̃.ʒe\/ verb

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The verdict

“anger” is uncommon French (frequency #58,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,406
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embarrasser, incommoder. Après avoir eu le sens neutre de pousser, croître, provenir, et le sens actif de pourvoir (un terrain du germe de …), laisser choir sa graine en terre, fournir (surtout en ...

Corpus desk

Index FR-anger · anger · French

anger · rank #58,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,406
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH andi

Nearest frequency peer: andi (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « anger »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for anger
PropertyValue
Headwordanger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.ʒe\
Letters5
Frequency rank#58,406
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « anger » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.angertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « andi » (#58,405), « anachronismes » (#58,404), « amusais » (#58,403). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « anger » est au #58,406. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

anger is uncommon French at frequency #58,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Embarrasser, incommoder. Après avoir eu le sens neutre de pousser, croître, provenir, et le sens actif de pourvoir (un terrain du germe de …), laisser choir sa graine en terre, fournir (surtout en ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for anger in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is anger, spelled A-N-G-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Embarrasser, incommoder. Après avoir eu le sens neutre de pousser, croître, provenir, et le sens actif de pourvoir (un terrain du germe de …), laisser choir sa graine en terre, fournir (surtout en plantes), doter (de), ce verbe s’est pris ironiquement dans ce dernier sens, en parlant de choses mauvaises ou incommodes ^([1]).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. ANGER, verbe actif : Votre père se moque-t-il de vouloir vous anger de son avocat de Limoges ? ([Molière,] M. de Pourc. [Pourceaugnac], I, 1.) Ce mot vient du latin augere, par la confusion, autrefois très-fréquente, de l’n et de l’u. De l’italien montone est venu mouton ; de monasterium, par syncope monstier et moustier, de conventus, convent et couvent,…

Antonyms

désanger

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anger"?
"anger" is spelled A-N-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ʒe\.
What does "anger" mean?
As a verb, "anger" means: Embarrasser, incommoder. Après avoir eu le sens neutre de pousser, croître, provenir, et le sens actif de pourvoir (un terrain du germe de …), laisser choir sa graine en terre, fournir (surtout en ...
How do you pronounce "anger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "anger" is \ɑ̃.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "anger" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list