agent
[eɪdʒənt]
The verdict
“agent” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,163
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Sache oder auch Person, die etwas Bestimmtes bewirkt
Corpus desk
Index DE-agent · agent · German
agent · rank #8,163 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,163
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Absturz
Nearest frequency peer: Absturz (-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 „agent“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- zwangsläufig
zwangsläufig
91,841 corpus weight
- überholt
überholt
91,840 corpus weight
- Absturz
Absturz
91,839 corpus weight
- agent
agent
91,838 corpus weight
- Altar
Altar
91,837 corpus weight
- anbietet
anbietet
91,836 corpus weight
What this shows „agent“ 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 | agent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɪdʒənt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „agent“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around agent (IPA [eɪdʒənt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,163 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for agent, with forms such as "aegnt", "agennt", and "agentt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ant", "amen", "ahnt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is agent, spelled A-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1eine Sache oder auch Person, die etwas Bestimmtes bewirkt
- 2eine Person oder auch Gesellschaft, die von einer zweiten beauftragt ist, zu Teilen deren Geschäft zu besorgen
- 3Agens
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„A few days after the assault, FBI agent Jeff Jamar said the FBI discounted Koresh's surrender promise because they had "absolute certain intelligence" that it was a sham.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aegnt
- agennt
- agentt
- agetn
- aggent
- agnet
- gaent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agent - 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 "agent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).