agree

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The English entry for agree is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈɡɹiː/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,133 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for agree, with forms such as "agere", "aggree", and "agre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "area", "arse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (“to accept or receive kindly”), from a gré (“favorably”), from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is agree, spelled A-G-R-E-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.