Angers

/\ɑ̃.ʒe\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,833

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Angers is aFrenchname. It means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de Maine-et-Loire. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ʒe\. It ranks #5,833 in French word frequency. Often confused with anges and angus.

Key facts for Angers
PropertyValue
HeadwordAngers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ɑ̃.ʒe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,833
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Angers in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Angers is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,833 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de Maine-et-Loire.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Angers, with forms such as "agners", "anegrs", and "angerrs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anges", "angus", "anses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Angers, spelled A-N-G-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de Maine-et-Loire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agners,anegrs,angerrs,angerss,angesr,anggers,angres,anngers,nagers

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Angers

Misspelling Variants of "Angers"

agners6anegrs6angerrs7angerss7angesr6anggers7angres6anngers7
Misspelling Variants of "Angers"

Frequency rank: #5,833 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Angers"?
"Angers" is spelled A-N-G-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ʒe\.
What does "Angers" mean?
As a name, "Angers" means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de Maine-et-Loire.
What words are commonly confused with "Angers"?
"Angers" is commonly confused with "anges", "angus", "anses". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Angers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Angers" is \ɑ̃.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Angers" come from?
"Angers" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.