Agonie
[aɡoˈniː]
The verdict
“Agonie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Todeskampf
Corpus desk
Index DE-agonie · Agonie · German
Agonie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Agonie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɡoˈniː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Agonie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Agonie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aɡoˈniː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Todeskampf".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Agonie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Agonie, spelled A-G-O-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Todeskampf
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Agonie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im vergangenen August lag die Frau zusammengekrümmt in Agonie, unfähig, sich vom Bett zu erheben. Sie verlor schnell an Gewicht, ihr Blut war von krebszerfressenem Knochenmark durchsetzt.“
„Falls Du nie einen Kampf des Krieges erlebt hast, nie die Einsamkeit durch Gefangenschaft, die Agonie des Gequälten oder Hunger gespürt hast – dann bist Du glücklicher als 500 Millionen Menschen der Welt.“
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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.