angus

/\ɑ̃n.ɡœs\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#21,846

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

angus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Race à viande de taurins originaires du Royaume-Uni (Écosse), à robe rouge ou noire unie. Pronounced \ɑ̃n.ɡœs\. Often confused with ans and aus.

Key facts for angus
PropertyValue
Headwordangus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃n.ɡœs\
Letters5
Frequency rank#21,846
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of angus in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for angus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃n.ɡœs\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,846 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Race à viande de taurins originaires du Royaume-Uni (Écosse), à robe rouge ou noire unie.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for angus, with forms such as "agnus", "anggus", and "angsu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ans", "aus", "anus", 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 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 angus, spelled A-N-G-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Race à viande de taurins originaires du Royaume-Uni (Écosse), à robe rouge ou noire unie.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agnus,anggus,angsu,anguss,anngus,anugs,nagus

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for angus

Misspelling Variants of "angus"

agnus5anggus6angsu5anguss6anngus6anugs5nagus5
Misspelling Variants of "angus"

Frequency rank: #21,846 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "angus"?
"angus" is spelled A-N-G-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃n.ɡœs\.
What does "angus" mean?
As a noun, "angus" means: Race à viande de taurins originaires du Royaume-Uni (Écosse), à robe rouge ou noire unie.
What words are commonly confused with "angus"?
"angus" is commonly confused with "ans", "aus", "anus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "angus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "angus" is \ɑ̃n.ɡœs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "angus" come from?
"angus" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.