angoisse
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angoisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡwas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Anxiété 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.
- 2Grande affliction d’esprit mêlée d’une vive inquiétude.
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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"
Frequency rank: #6,460 in French
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