Agen
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The verdict
“Agen” is uncommon German (frequency #87,366 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,366
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Aquitanien im Südwesten Frankreichs an der Garonne
Corpus desk
Index DE-agen · Agen · German
Agen · rank #87,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,366
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH afternoon
Nearest frequency peer: afternoon (-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 „Agen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- acre
acre
12,638 corpus weight
- adelt
adelt
12,637 corpus weight
- afternoon
afternoon
12,636 corpus weight
- Agen
Agen
12,635 corpus weight
- Ahrtal
Ahrtal
12,633 corpus weight
- ako
ako
12,632 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Agen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Agen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Agen is uncommon German at frequency #87,366 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt in Aquitanien im Südwesten Frankreichs an der Garonne".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Agen, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Agen, spelled A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Aquitanien im Südwesten Frankreichs an der Garonne
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Agen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der dänische Radrennstar Thorwald Ellegaard gewinnt bei einer Radrennveranstaltung im französischen Agen drei Rennen.“
„Mit der Freigabe des letzten Teilstückes zwischen Agen und Castelsarrasin wird die 354 km lange Autobahnverbindung zwischen dem Atlantik und dem Mittelmeer fertiggestellt.“
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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