angel

Other forms of angel

plural

angels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about angel

What does angel mean?

angel means "spiritual being attendant upon God". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in angel?

angel has 2 syllables: an-gel. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈeɪndʒəl/.

What is another word for angel?

Close synonyms include saint, holy man, holy person, backer, Angel Falls. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angel a common word?

angel is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.