angustus
The verdict
“angustus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étroit, resserré, rétréci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-angustus · angustus · French
angustus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angustus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « angustus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
angustus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
angustus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 angustus, spelled A-N-G-U-S-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Étroit, resserré, rétréci.
- 2Étroit, borné (esprit).
- 3De courte durée, bref, maigre, sec (style).
- 4Difficile, embarrassant, dangereux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how angustus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ad augusta per angusta.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.