agar
[ˈaɡar]
The verdict
“agar” is uncommon German (frequency #59,409 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,409
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agar, Agar-Agar
Corpus desk
Index DE-agar · agar · German
agar · rank #59,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,409
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH afrikanisch
Nearest frequency peer: afrikanisch (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „agar“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Achsel
Achsel
40,596 corpus weight
- afrikanisch
afrikanisch
40,593 corpus weight
- agar
agar
40,592 corpus weight
- agilen
agilen
40,591 corpus weight
- aks
aks
40,590 corpus weight
- alleinstehe…
alleinstehend
40,588 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „agar“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɡar] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „agar“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
agar is uncommon German at frequency #59,409 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaɡar]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
agar 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is agar, spelled A-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1Agar, Agar-Agar
- 2Algen, aus denen [1] gewonnen wird
Synonyms
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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