agin
/əˈɡɪn/
"agin" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agin” is uncommon English (frequency #68,001 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,001
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of again.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agin · agin · English
agin · rank #68,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,001
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ajmer
Nearest frequency peer: Ajmer (+2 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 “agin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Adina
Adina
32,006 corpus weight
- agin
agin
32,000 corpus weight
- Ajmer
Ajmer
31,998 corpus weight
- alim
alim
31,995 corpus weight
- aniline
aniline
31,993 corpus weight
- anklet
anklet
31,992 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “agin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /əˈɡɪn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agin is uncommon English at frequency #68,001 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /əˈɡɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of again.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for agin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Scots agin, variant form of again (“against”). The correct English form is agin, spelled A-G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of again.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”
Etymology
From Scots agin, variant form of again (“against”).
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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