agitprop
/ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/
"agitprop" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agitprop” is an uncommon English word, ranked #89,081 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,081
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Departmen...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agitprop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agitprop” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for agitprop is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/. Corpus data places it at rank #89,081 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for agitprop, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “Agitprop (Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Soviet Union)”), short for отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy, “Department for Agitatio… The correct English form is agitprop, spelled A-G-I-T-P-R-O-P.
Definition
- 1Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 2An instance of such propaganda.
- 3An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “Agitprop (Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Soviet Union)”), short for отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy, “Department for Agitation and Propaganda”); analysable as a blend of agitation + propaganda. The verb is derived from the noun.
This word in other languages
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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- The one correct English spelling is A-G-I-T-P-R-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.