anguleux
\ɑ̃.ɡy.lø\
The verdict
“anguleux” is uncommon French (frequency #61,297 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,297
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui forme un ou plusieurs angles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anguleux · anguleux · French
anguleux · rank #61,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anet
Nearest frequency peer: anet (-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 « anguleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ambivalente
ambivalente
38,708 corpus weight
- Andromeda
Andromeda
38,706 corpus weight
- anet
anet
38,705 corpus weight
- anguleux
anguleux
38,704 corpus weight
- apaisées
apaisées
38,702 corpus weight
- aperçues
aperçues
38,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « anguleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anguleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡy.lø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « anguleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
anguleux is uncommon French at frequency #61,297 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡy.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
anguleux doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 anguleux, spelled A-N-G-U-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui forme un ou plusieurs angles.
- 2Qualifie un visage dont les traits ont une saillie excessive.
- 3Qui est rude, difficile.
- 4En parlant d’un chiffre, qui n’est pas rond. → voir chiffre anguleux
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anguleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fruit à maturité, long de 56 centimètres, légèrement anguleux ; peau presque lisse, d’un jaune orange.
Puis tout se confondait, et les maisons, les toits aigus, les pignons formaient une seule masse, bizarrement découpée, dont la ligne anguleuse se détachait sur le couchant.
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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