angoisse

/\ɑ̃.ɡwas\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,460

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

angoisse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Anxiété extrême, accompagnée d’un serrement douloureux à l’épigastre, d’oppression et de palpitation. On l’observe dans plusieurs maladies, surtout dans les affections nerveuses. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡwas\. It ranks #6,460 in French word frequency. Often confused with angoisses and angoissée.

Key facts for angoisse
PropertyValue
Headwordangoisse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡwas\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,460
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for angoisse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡwas\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,460 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for angoisse, with forms such as "agnoisse", "anggoisse", and "angiosse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "angoisses", "angoissée", "agisse", 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 angoisse, spelled A-N-G-O-I-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anxiété extrême, accompagnée d’un serrement douloureux à l’épigastre, d’oppression et de palpitation. On l’observe dans plusieurs maladies, surtout dans les affections nerveuses.
  2. 2
    Grande affliction d’esprit mêlée d’une vive inquiétude.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agnoisse,anggoisse,angiosse,angoise,angoises,angosise,anngoisse,anogisse,nagoisse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for angoisse

Misspelling Variants of "angoisse"

agnoisse8anggoisse9angiosse8angoise7angoises8angosise8anngoisse9anogisse8
Misspelling Variants of "angoisse"

Frequency rank: #6,460 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "angoisse"?
"angoisse" is spelled A-N-G-O-I-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡwas\.
What does "angoisse" mean?
As a noun, "angoisse" means: Anxiété extrême, accompagnée d’un serrement douloureux à l’épigastre, d’oppression et de palpitation. On l’observe dans plusieurs maladies, surtout dans les affections nerveuses.
What words are commonly confused with "angoisse"?
"angoisse" is commonly confused with "angoisses", "angoissée", "agisse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "angoisse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "angoisse" is \ɑ̃.ɡwas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "angoisse" come from?
"angoisse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.