AGL
"agl" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“AGL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,290) as a phrase. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,290
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of above ground level: designating a measured distance from the ground to a higher level, i.e. altitude.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agl · AGL · English
AGL · rank #46,290 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,290
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Agarwal
Nearest frequency peer: Agarwal (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “AGL”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- aced
aced
53,716 corpus weight
- Agarwal
Agarwal
53,712 corpus weight
- AGL
AGL
53,711 corpus weight
- airspeed
airspeed
53,710 corpus weight
- ake
ake
53,709 corpus weight
- alphas
alphas
53,706 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “AGL” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AGL |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “AGL”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AGL is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is aphrase. Frequency #46,290 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of above ground level: designating a measured distance from the ground to a higher level, i.e. altitude.".
AGL doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is AGL, spelled A-G-L.
Definition
- 1Initialism of above ground level: designating a measured distance from the ground to a higher level, i.e. altitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AGL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The company shard specific data from today’s flight on social media, revealing that the New Shepard capsule that carried Katy Perry, Gayle King and their crewmates to space hit 346,802 feet above ground level (AGL) and 350,449 above mean sea level (MSL).
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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