Agathon
"agathon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Agathon” is uncommon English (frequency #97,771 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,771
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agathon · Agathon · English
Agathon · rank #97,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,771
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Africanism
Nearest frequency peer: Africanism (-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 “Agathon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- adjoin
adjoin
2,238 corpus weight
- Afia
Afia
2,232 corpus weight
- Africanism
Africanism
2,231 corpus weight
- Agathon
Agathon
2,230 corpus weight
- Alejo
Alejo
2,226 corpus weight
- alhamdulill…
alhamdulillah
2,223 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Agathon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agathon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Agathon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Agathon is uncommon English at frequency #97,771 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Ancient Greek.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Agathon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 Ancient Greek Ἀγάθων (Agáthōn). The correct English form is Agathon, spelled A-G-A-T-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀγάθων (Agáthōn).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).