angine

\ɑ̃.ʒin\

/\ɑ̃.ʒin\/ noun

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The verdict

“angine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,461. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,461
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation des amygdales, de la membrane muqueuse du voile du palais et du pharynx.

Corpus desk

Index FR-angine · angine · French

angine · rank #30,461 · 8 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,461
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH antagoniste

Nearest frequency peer: antagoniste (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « angine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « angine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

angine vs anne
67% similar
angine vs angle
67% similar
angine vs animé
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for angine
PropertyValue
Headwordangine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ʒin\
Letters6
Frequency rank#30,461
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « angine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).anginese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « antagoniste » (#30,462), « ancestral » (#30,459), « antibiotique » (#30,463). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « angine » est au #30,461. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around angine (IPA \ɑ̃.ʒin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,461 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Inflammation des amygdales, de la membrane muqueuse du voile du palais et du pharynx.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for angine, with forms such as "agnine", "anggine", and "angien". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "anne", "angle", "animé", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is angine, spelled A-N-G-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inflammation des amygdales, de la membrane muqueuse du voile du palais et du pharynx.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Gambetta a inventé une angine dont il joue chaque fois qu’il y a péril à se prononcer. Cette ficelle ne me va pas, je devine le pantin au bout. Mais ils risquent gros, ceux qui se moquent du Peuple. Ils ont d’abord des angines pour de rire, puis un jour arrive où on leur scie le cou pour de bon.
  2. Un réserviste du 6ᵉ dragons rentre dans sa famille, dans le Calvados, le 15 février 1909. Il s'alite le 16 et le 17 pour une angine légère. Le 22 février, sa jeune domestique, âgée de quatorze ans, est prise de méningite.

This word in other languages

tonsillitis(English)angina(Español)Angina(Deutsch)angina(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agnine
  • anggine
  • angien
  • anginne
  • angnie
  • anigne
  • anngine
  • nagine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of angine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

agnine2anggine1angien2anginne1angnie2anigne2anngine1nagine2
Edit distance from "angine"

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 "angine"?
"angine" is spelled A-N-G-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ʒin\.
What does "angine" mean?
As a noun, "angine" means: Inflammation des amygdales, de la membrane muqueuse du voile du palais et du pharynx.
What words are commonly confused with "angine"?
"angine" is commonly confused with "anne", "angle", "animé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "angine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "angine" is \ɑ̃.ʒin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "angine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

adonne#30,454Armani#30,471baises#30,484battra#30,487

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

assiégé8 variantszèbre8 variantsBogota8 variantsBrock8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list