agencies
/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/
"agencies" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agencies” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,772 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,772
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of agency
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agencies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agencies” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for agencies is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,772 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of agency".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for agencies, with forms such as "aegncies", "agecnies", and "agenccies". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is agencies, spelled A-G-E-N-C-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of agency
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aegncies,agecnies,agenccies,agenceis,agenciess,agencise,agenices,agenncies,aggencies,agnecies,gaencies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agencies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “agencies”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-G-E-N-C-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.siz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.