agency
[eɪdʒənsɪ]
The verdict
“agency” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,116
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertretung, Agentur, Büro, Dienststelle, Stellvertretung
Corpus desk
Index DE-agency · agency · German
agency · rank #19,116 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,116
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH AGB
Nearest frequency peer: AGB (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „agency“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abzubauen
abzubauen
80,888 corpus weight
- Administrat…
Administrator
80,887 corpus weight
- AGB
AGB
80,886 corpus weight
- agency
agency
80,885 corpus weight
- Alu
Alu
80,883 corpus weight
- amerikanisc…
amerikanisches
80,882 corpus weight
What this shows „agency“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agency |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɪdʒənsɪ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „agency“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around agency (IPA [eɪdʒənsɪ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,116 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for agency, with forms such as "aegncy", "agecny", and "agenccy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "agent", "Agenda", "agents", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is agency, spelled A-G-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Vertretung, Agentur, Büro, Dienststelle, Stellvertretung
- 2Effekt, Wirkung
- 3Behörde, Amt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agency appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The purpose of this book is not only to underscore that torture is a moral issue, beyond all partisan politics, but also to help religious communities mobilize against it, so that all loopholes permitting torture by any U.S. agencies, wether military or intelligence, might be eliminated."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aegncy
- agecny
- agenccy
- agencyy
- agenncy
- agenyc
- aggency
- agnecy
- gaency
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agency - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agency", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).