# agenda

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/ · frequency rank #4,285

## Definitions
1. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
2. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
3. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
4. An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
5. A ritual.

## Etymology
From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“I do, act, make”).

## Easily confused with
- **Anda** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-anda)
- **agent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-agent)
- **arena** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-arena)
- **amend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-amend)
- **agents** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-agents)
- **Amanda** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-amanda)
- **amends** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agenda-vs-amends)
- **aged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/aged-vs-agenda)
- **agency** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agency-vs-agenda)

## Common misspellings (8)
`aegnda`, `agedna`, `agenad`, `agendda`, `agennda`, `aggenda`, `agneda`, `gaenda`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/agenda