agee

adv

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “agee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for agee
PropertyValue
Headwordagee
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdverb
Letters4
Frequency rank#57,205
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “agee” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).ageefalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “afflict” (#57,204), “agronomy” (#57,206), “affine” (#57,203). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “agee” is #57,205. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how agee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I wore my hat agee.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agee"?
"agee" is spelled A-G-E-E.
What does "agee" mean?
As an adverb, "agee" means: Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
What is the origin of the word "agee"?
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. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agee", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list