Agnes
[ˈaɡnɛs]
The verdict
“Agnes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,993. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,993
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-agnes · Agnes · German
Agnes · rank #10,993 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,993
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Administration
Nearest frequency peer: Administration (-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 „Agnes“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abziehen
abziehen
89,011 corpus weight
- Acker
Acker
89,010 corpus weight
- Administrat…
Administration
89,009 corpus weight
- Agnes
Agnes
89,008 corpus weight
- Allah
Allah
89,007 corpus weight
- andernfalls
andernfalls
89,006 corpus weight
What this shows „Agnes“ 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 | Agnes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɡnɛs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Agnes“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Agnes (IPA [ˈaɡnɛs]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,993 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Agnes, with forms such as "agens", "aggnes", and "agness". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ans", "anne", "Arne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Agnes, spelled A-G-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Agnes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der wilde voreilige Friedrich Mannsfeld murmelte Bestätigung dessen, was Gebhard in seinen Augen zu lesen glaubte, der alte General nannte den Namen Carl Truchseß, mit zur Erde gesenktem Blick, und Agnesens Vater, der all diese Zeit über geschwiegen hatte, fragte mit einem tiefen Seufzer, ob dies die Zeit sey, auf Heyrathswerbungen zu denken?“
Agnes pflegt, alle Tage bis Mittag im Bette zu verweilen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agens
- aggnes
- agness
- agnnes
- agnse
- anges
- ganes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Agnes - 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
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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).