agonies
/ˈæ.ɡə.niːz/
"agonies" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agonies” is uncommon English (frequency #71,265 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,265
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of agony
Corpus desk
Index EN-agonies · agonies · English
agonies · rank #71,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,265
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH agronomist
Nearest frequency peer: agronomist (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “agonies”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- AFAIK
AFAIK
28,739 corpus weight
- affray
affray
28,738 corpus weight
- agonies
agonies
28,736 corpus weight
- agronomist
agronomist
28,735 corpus weight
- Albertine
Albertine
28,732 corpus weight
- alfresco
alfresco
28,731 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “agonies” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agonies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæ.ɡə.niːz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agonies” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agonies is uncommon English at frequency #71,265 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæ.ɡə.niːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of agony".
agonies doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is agonies, spelled A-G-O-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of agony
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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