angle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,754
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
angle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espace entre deux lignes ou deux plans qui se croisent ; inclinaison d’une ligne par rapport à une autre ; se mesure en degrés, en grades ou en radians. Pronounced \ɑ̃ɡl\. It ranks #2,754 in French word frequency. Often confused with anne and anse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃ɡl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for angle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃ɡl\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,754 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for angle, with forms such as "agnle", "anggle", and "anglle". 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, "anne", "anse", "ante", 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 angle, spelled A-N-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espace entre deux lignes ou deux plans qui se croisent ; inclinaison d’une ligne par rapport à une autre ; se mesure en degrés, en grades ou en radians.
- 2Coin, extrémité d’une chose terminée par un croisement.
- 3Façon de voir ou de présenter les choses, point de vue.
- 4Rudesse ; aspérités.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agnle,anggle,anglle,anlge,anngle,nagle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for angle
Misspelling Variants of "angle"
Frequency rank: #2,754 in French
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