angoisser
\ɑ̃.ɡwa.se\
The verdict
“angoisser” is uncommon French (frequency #57,076 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,076
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tourmenter par l’angoisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-angoisser · angoisser · French
angoisser · rank #57,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,076
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Andrzej
Nearest frequency peer: Andrzej (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « angoisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amulettes
amulettes
42,928 corpus weight
- amélia
amélia
42,927 corpus weight
- Andrzej
Andrzej
42,926 corpus weight
- angoisser
angoisser
42,925 corpus weight
- ansel
ansel
42,924 corpus weight
- anticlérica…
anticléricalisme
42,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « angoisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angoisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡwa.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « angoisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
angoisser is uncommon French at frequency #57,076 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡwa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tourmenter par l’angoisse.".
angoisser has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 angoisser, spelled A-N-G-O-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tourmenter par l’angoisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how angoisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette nouvelle nous a angoissés.
Mais ceci peut également les effrayer et les angoisser.
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); 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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