agee
"agee" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agee” is uncommon English (frequency #57,205 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,205
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agee · agee · English
agee · rank #57,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,205
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH afflict
Nearest frequency peer: afflict (-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 “agee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acoustically
acoustically
42,800 corpus weight
- affine
affine
42,798 corpus weight
- afflict
afflict
42,797 corpus weight
- agee
agee
42,796 corpus weight
- agronomy
agronomy
42,795 corpus weight
- Ahern
Ahern
42,794 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “agee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agee is uncommon English at frequency #57,205 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for agee, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a- + gee. A preposition of state + gee (“to move to one side”), from gee or jee, a call to a horse to move to one side. The correct English form is agee, spelled A-G-E-E.
Definition
- 1Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I wore my hat agee.
A looking-glass that don't make you look as if your face was all agee.
Etymology
From a- + gee. A preposition of state + gee (“to move to one side”), from gee or jee, a call to a horse to move to one side.
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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