agen
"agen" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agen” is uncommon English (frequency #55,222 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,222
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of again.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agen · agen · English
agen · rank #55,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,222
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aflame
Nearest frequency peer: aflame (-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 “agen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- adjudicator
adjudicator
44,783 corpus weight
- afire
afire
44,781 corpus weight
- aflame
aflame
44,780 corpus weight
- agen
agen
44,779 corpus weight
- aggro
aggro
44,778 corpus weight
- Akali
Akali
44,776 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “agen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agen is uncommon English at frequency #55,222 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of again.".
No misspelling variants are generated for agen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of again. The correct English form is agen, spelled A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of again.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night O, how I long to be agen That poor and independent man, With labour's lot from morn to night And books to read at candle light;
Etymology
Variant of again.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).