agama
"agama" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agama” is uncommon English (frequency #96,721 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,721
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agama · agama · English
agama · rank #96,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,721
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aflatoxin
Nearest frequency peer: aflatoxin (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “agama”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- advocaat
advocaat
3,286 corpus weight
- aflatoxin
aflatoxin
3,281 corpus weight
- agama
agama
3,280 corpus weight
- agriculturi…
agriculturist
3,278 corpus weight
- Alde
Alde
3,276 corpus weight
- Allport
Allport
3,275 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “agama” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agama” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agama is uncommon English at frequency #96,721 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for agama, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Sranan Tongo agama (“lizard”), from a Gbe language; compare Ewe agama (“chameleon”). The correct English form is agama, spelled A-G-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.
Etymology
From Sranan Tongo agama (“lizard”), from a Gbe language; compare Ewe agama (“chameleon”).
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.
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