anglais

/\ɑ̃.ɡlɛ\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#475

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

anglais is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à l’Angleterre ou à ses habitants. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡlɛ\. It ranks #475 in French word frequency. Often confused with anglois and anglaise.

Key facts for anglais
PropertyValue
Headwordanglais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡlɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#475
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for anglais is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡlɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #475 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for anglais, with forms such as "agnlais", "angalis", and "angglais". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "anglois", "anglaise", "Angolais", 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 anglais, spelled A-N-G-L-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à l’Angleterre ou à ses habitants.
  2. 2
    Relatif à la langue anglaise.
  3. 3
    Relatif à l'écriture cursive dite anglaise.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agnlais,angalis,angglais,anglaiss,anglasi,anglias,angllais,anlgais,annglais,naglais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anglais

Misspelling Variants of "anglais"

agnlais7angalis7angglais8anglaiss8anglasi7anglias7angllais8anlgais7
Misspelling Variants of "anglais"

Frequency rank: #475 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anglais"?
"anglais" is spelled A-N-G-L-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡlɛ\.
What does "anglais" mean?
As an adj, "anglais" means: Relatif à l’Angleterre ou à ses habitants.
What words are commonly confused with "anglais"?
"anglais" is commonly confused with "anglois", "anglaise", "Angolais". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "anglais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "anglais" is \ɑ̃.ɡlɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "anglais" come from?
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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.