Agard
"agard" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Agard” is uncommon English (frequency #98,940 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,940
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Danish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agard · Agard · English
Agard · rank #98,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,940
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aetiology
Nearest frequency peer: aetiology (-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 “Agard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abramoff
Abramoff
1,067 corpus weight
- accost
accost
1,066 corpus weight
- adventitious
adventitious
1,063 corpus weight
- aetiology
aetiology
1,062 corpus weight
- Agard
Agard
1,061 corpus weight
- aiga
aiga
1,056 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Agard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Agard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Agard is uncommon English at frequency #98,940 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Danish.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Agard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From North Germanic (Scandinavian), from Danish Aagaard, Norwegian Aagaard. The correct English form is Agard, spelled A-G-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A surname from Danish.
Etymology
From North Germanic (Scandinavian), from Danish Aagaard, Norwegian Aagaard.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).