Agentur
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,246
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Agentur is aGermannoun. It means: Büro, das Vermittlungsdienstleistungen erbringt oder die Interessenvertretung für seine Kunden übernimmt Pronounced [aɡɛnˈtuːɐ̯]. It ranks #4,246 in German word frequency. Often confused with Agenturen and agent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agentur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɡɛnˈtuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Agentur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɡɛnˈtuːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,246 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Agentur, with forms such as "aegntur", "agenntur", and "agentru". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Agenturen", "agent", "agents", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Agentur, spelled A-G-E-N-T-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Büro, das Vermittlungsdienstleistungen erbringt oder die Interessenvertretung für seine Kunden übernimmt
- 2Nachrichten- oder Presseagentur
- 3Bundesanstalt oder eine ihrer Filialen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aegntur,agenntur,agentru,agenttur,agenturr,agenutr,agetnur,aggentur,agnetur,gaentur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Agentur
Misspelling Variants of "Agentur"
Frequency rank: #4,246 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: