anguille

\ɑ̃.ɡij\

/\ɑ̃.ɡij\/ noun

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The verdict

“anguille” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,613
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson osseux de la forme d’un serpent, couverts d’une peau glissante, et dont les nageoires caudales, anales et dorsales sont continues, habituellement d’eau douce et se reproduisant dans l’océan...

Corpus desk

Index FR-anguille · anguille · French

anguille · rank #26,613 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,613
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amortir

Nearest frequency peer: amortir (-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 « anguille »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « anguille » 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).

anguille vs annuelle
75% similar
anguille vs anguilles
89% similar
anguille vs aiguille
88% similar

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

Key facts for anguille
PropertyValue
Headwordanguille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡij\
Letters8
Frequency rank#26,613
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « anguille »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).anguillese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « amortir » (#26,612), « antagonistes » (#26,614), « amorcer » (#26,611). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « anguille » est au #26,613. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around anguille (IPA \ɑ̃.ɡij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,613 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for anguille, with forms such as "agnuille", "angguille", and "angiulle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "annuelle", "anguilles", "aiguille", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is anguille, spelled A-N-G-U-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poisson osseux de la forme d’un serpent, couverts d’une peau glissante, et dont les nageoires caudales, anales et dorsales sont continues, habituellement d’eau douce et se reproduisant dans l’océan, de la famille des anguillidés.
  2. 2
    Personne qui manœuvre adroitement pour s’échapper ou se sortir de l’embarras.
  3. 3
    Ceinture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les poissons qu'on trouve dans la Charente sont la tanche, la truite, l’anguille, la plie, le barbeau, le chabot, l’âton, le dard, la brème, le goujon, l’ablette et l’écrevisse. Ceux qui remontent de la mer sont la lamproie, le meuil, qui s'arrêtent le plus ordinairement à Jarnac; la gathe, et rarement l’alose.
  2. On pêche fréquemment dans le Rhône le barbeau et le goujon, quelquefois la truite ordinaire, la truite saumonée et même le saumon, le plus souvent la carpe, le brochet et les deux espèces d’anguilles de nos marais , que distinguent fort bien nos pêcheurs et mieux encore nos gourmets. A certaines époques, on y prend des esturgeons et des aloses en grande q…

This word in other languages

eel(English)anguila(Español)Aal(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agnuille
  • angguille
  • angiulle
  • anguile
  • anguilel
  • angulile
  • annguille
  • anugille
  • naguille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anguille - 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.

agnuille2angguille1angiulle2anguile1anguilel2angulile2annguille1anugille2
Edit distance from "anguille"

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 "anguille"?
"anguille" is spelled A-N-G-U-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡij\.
What does "anguille" mean?
As a noun, "anguille" means: Poisson osseux de la forme d’un serpent, couverts d’une peau glissante, et dont les nageoires caudales, anales et dorsales sont continues, habituellement d’eau douce et se reproduisant dans l’océan...
What words are commonly confused with "anguille"?
"anguille" is commonly confused with "annuelle", "anguilles", "aiguille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "anguille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "anguille" is \ɑ̃.ɡij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "anguille" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

armateur#26,622arrondie#26,624abordant#26,597Aznavour#26,631

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

apaisée9 variantsadmises9 variantsbardot9 variantsveuilles9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list