agravsAmaraTell them apart

Quick tell: agra is a noun, Amara is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“agra” is a noun and “Amara” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,428
“agra” frequency rank
#45,200
“Amara” frequency rank
76628
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agra Amara
Definition Dear, darling (as a term of endearment). A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".

Letter map: agra vs Amara

Shared letters muted; letters that set agra and Amara apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. agra runs 4 letters (VCCV) against Amara's 5 (VCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
agra
5 ch
Amara

Part-of-speech tell for agra / Amara

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: agra is anoun and Amaraaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76628, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agra is recorded at frequency rank #31,428, classified as anoun, pronounced /əˈɡɹɑː/. Amara is at rank #45,200, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 76628, this pair ranks #29,570 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of agra vs Amara

Shared letters: ar. Private to "agra": g. Private to "Amara": m.

"agra" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "Amara" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • agra ← aggra · agrra · arga · gara
  • Amara ← aamra · amaar · amarra · ammara · amraa · maara

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "agra" and "Amara" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "agra" is a noun and "Amara" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "agra" vs "Amara" - which ranks higher?
"agra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,428 in our English list, against #45,200 for "Amara". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "agra" and "Amara".

  • Full dictionary entry for "agra" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Amara" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,570 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agra" and "Amara" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Amara vs Amari". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #29,570 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list