ag
/ˈæɡ/
"ag" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ag” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,643) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,643
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of agriculture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ag · ag · English
ag · rank #7,643 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,643
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH advocates
Nearest frequency peer: advocates (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ag”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- accessories
accessories
92,361 corpus weight
- Adrian
Adrian
92,360 corpus weight
- advocates
advocates
92,359 corpus weight
- ag
ag
92,358 corpus weight
- ambitious
ambitious
92,357 corpus weight
- amid
amid
92,356 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ag” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | ag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæɡ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ag”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ag is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈæɡ/. Frequency #7,643 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Clipping of agriculture.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ag in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of agriculture or agricultural. The correct English form is ag, spelled A-G.
Definition
- 1Clipping of agriculture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He got his degree from the state ag college.
My class is over on ag campus.
Etymology
Clipping of agriculture or agricultural.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.