angoissant
\ɑ̃.ɡwa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“angoissant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,861
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cause de l’angoisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-angoissant · angoissant · French
angoissant · rank #34,861 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,861
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ancrer
Nearest frequency peer: ancrer (-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 « angoissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- amusants
amusants
65,143 corpus weight
- améliorera
améliorera
65,142 corpus weight
- ancrer
ancrer
65,141 corpus weight
- angoissant
angoissant
65,140 corpus weight
- ante
ante
65,139 corpus weight
- anéantissem…
anéantissement
65,138 corpus weight
What this shows « angoissant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angoissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡwa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « angoissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around angoissant (IPA \ɑ̃.ɡwa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,861 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui cause de l’angoisse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for angoissant, with forms such as "agnoissant", "anggoissant", and "angiossant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "angoissante", "agissant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is angoissant, spelled A-N-G-O-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui cause de l’angoisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how angoissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Lettres à l'Étrangère, […] malgré cette jactance énorme, qui le fait se gonfler jusqu'à la bouffonnerie, sont le plus émouvant, le plus angoissant martyrologe qui se puisse imaginer d'une vie d'artiste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agnoissant
- anggoissant
- angiossant
- angoisant
- angoisasnt
- angoissannt
- angoissantt
- angoissatn
- angoissnat
- angosisant
- anngoissant
- anogissant
- nagoissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of angoissant - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).