Agha
[ˈaːɡa]
The verdict
“Agha” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titel für ursprünglich höhere Offiziere und später auch für niedere Offiziere sowie Zivilbeamte im Osmanischen Reich
Corpus desk
Index DE-agha · Agha · German
Agha · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agha |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːɡa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Agha“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Agha is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaːɡa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titel für ursprünglich höhere Offiziere und später auch für niedere Offiziere sowie Zivilbeamte im Osmanischen Reich".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Agha, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Agha, spelled A-G-H-A.
Definition
- 1Titel für ursprünglich höhere Offiziere und später auch für niedere Offiziere sowie Zivilbeamte im Osmanischen Reich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Agha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Übrigens war ich ganz vergnügt, den Agha als einen Moslem kennen zu lernen, dem zwar der Wein, nicht aber die Arznei verboten ist, welche aus dem Blute der Trauben gekeltert wird.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.