angle mort
\ɑ̃.ɡlə mɔʁ\
The verdict
“angle mort” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zone d’une fortification ne pouvant être défendue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-angle-mort · angle mort · French
angle mort · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angle mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡlə mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « angle mort » en français
Rare enough to double-check
angle mort is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡlə mɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
angle mort has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is angle mort, spelled A-N-G-L-E- -M-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Zone d’une fortification ne pouvant être défendue.
- 2Zone inaccessible au champ de vision.
- 3Zone inaccessible au champ de vision.
- 4Zone inaccessible au champ de vision.
- 5Période entre la date de vérification de la faisabilité d’une transaction (solvabilité, hypothèques…) et la réalisation de la transaction, pendant laquelle il n’est pas possible de garantir qu’il ne s’est pas produit quelque chose invalidant la vérification.
- 6Point faible.
- 7Partie d’une question, d’un problème, pour laquelle l’esprit semble aveugle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how angle mort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Angle mort, c'est un angle rentrant , qui n'est point flanqué ou défendu.
Lucile n’échappait pas à la règle, mais son père n’allait jamais jusqu’à l’humilier. Lucile se dérobait à son regard, cherchait les angles morts.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.