again

a·gain/əˈɡɛn/adverb, preposition

again is spelled A-G-A-I-N, 2 syllables: a·gain. The wrong spelling people search most is agian: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 58 of all searches for the word. Again is an adverb meaning “Another time: indicating a repeat of an action”.

How many letters and syllables are in again?

Letters	5: A-G-A-I-N
Syllables	2: a·gain
In writing	501 times per million words; the 192nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, agian, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with	then ten en pen more

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell again?

Again is spelled A-G-A-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 58 of the searches for again in either form.

againthe right spelling8,590 searches a month

agiana and i swapped150 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is again?

Again appears 501 times per million words in written English, the 192nd most frequent word form in the list.

again0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce again?

UK /əˈɡɛn/
UK /əˈɡeɪn/
US /əˈɡɛn/

Again has 2 syllables, split a·gain in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-again.ogg, En-us-again.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with again?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as again from its last stressed vowel (/ɛn/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does again mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

1
Another time: indicating a repeat of an action.
I enjoyed it so much I went again the next day.
2
Back (to a former place or state).
We need to bring the old customs to life again.
3
Over and above a factor of one.
This stick is quite long, but that other one is half as long again.
4
Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
Great, thanks again!
5
Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.
What's that called again?
6
I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement.
Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand.
7
Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here".
Approach B is better than approach A in many respects, but again, there are difficulties in implementing it.
8
obsoleteBack in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.
Bring us word again.

preposition

1
Against.
You may think you are all on the same side, agin the government.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Again in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	de nouveau, encore (another time), déjà (used in a question to ask something one has…)
German	wieder, noch einmal (another time), nochmal, gleich (used in a question to ask something one has…), zurück (back to a former place or state)
Portuguese	de novo, outra vez, novamente (another time), mesmo (used in a question to ask something one has…), de volta (back to a former place or state)
Spanish	otra vez, de nuevo, nuevamente, tornar a, volver a (another time)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does again come from?

From Middle English agayn, from Old English onġēan (“against, again”), from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Cognate with German entgegen (“contrary to”), North Frisian ijen (“against”), Danish igen (“again”), Swedish igen (“again”), and Norwegian Bokmål igjen (“again”), and Icelandic í gegnum (“through”).