angry

\ˈæŋ.ɡɹi\

/\ˈæŋ.ɡɹi\/ adj

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The verdict

“angry” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,406
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En colère, fâché, furieux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-angry · angry · French

angry · rank #34,406 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,406
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Andres

Nearest frequency peer: Andres (-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 « angry »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « angry » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

angry vs any
60% similar
angry vs Aubry
40% similar
angry vs antre
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for angry
PropertyValue
Headwordangry
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ˈæŋ.ɡɹi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#34,406
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « angry »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.angryse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Andres » (#34,405), « annotations » (#34,407), « anchois » (#34,404). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « angry » est au #34,406. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around angry (IPA \ˈæŋ.ɡɹi\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "En colère, fâché, furieux.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for angry, with forms such as "agnry", "anggry", and "angrry". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "any", "Aubry", "antre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 angry, spelled A-N-G-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    En colère, fâché, furieux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how angry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He is hardly forty-five years old, never smokes, nor votes, nor gets angry.
  2. “And why not, child? Are you angry . . . because I washed your face with that towel?” “No, Gerrit, it’s not that, I’m not angry about that. . . . I’m not angry at all. . . .”

Synonyms

furiousmadpissed offupset

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agnry
  • anggry
  • angrry
  • angryy
  • angyr
  • anngry
  • anrgy
  • nagry

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of angry - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

agnry2anggry1angrry1angryy1angyr2anngry1anrgy2nagry2
Edit distance from "angry"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "angry"?
"angry" is spelled A-N-G-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈæŋ.ɡɹi\.
What does "angry" mean?
As an adjective, "angry" means: En colère, fâché, furieux.
What words are commonly confused with "angry"?
"angry" is commonly confused with "any", "Aubry", "antre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "angry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "angry" is \ˈæŋ.ɡɹi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "angry" come from?
"angry" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "angry", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ardue#34,418assit#34,424abois#34,382barde#34,433

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Andres8 variantsagente8 variantsadressa8 variantsattitré8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list