agree
a·gree/əˈɡɹi/verb
agree is spelled A-G-R-E-E, 2 syllables: a·gree. The wrong spelling people search most is agreee: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 62 of all searches for the word. Agree is a verb meaning “To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people”.
How many letters and syllables are in agree?
| Letters | 5: A-G-R-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: a·gree |
| In writing | 93 times per million words; the 1,144th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, agreee, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell agree?
Agree is spelled A-G-R-E-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 62 of the searches for agree in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is agree?
Agree appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce agree?
- UK /əˈɡɹiː/
- US /əˈɡɹi/
Agree has 2 syllables, split a·gree in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-agree.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with agree?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as agree from its last stressed vowel (/i/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: eager, agere.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of agree
- agrees present, singular, he/she/it
- agreeing participle, present
- agreed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does agree mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
All parties agree in the expediency of the law.
- 2
To give assent; to accede.
It was agreed to meet here at midday.
- 3
IrelandUKTo yield assent to; to approve.
We agreed a bargain yesterday.
- 4
To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- 5
To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
The picture does not agree with the original.
- 6
To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
The same food does not agree with every constitution.
- 7
To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
- 8
To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Agree in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | être d'accord, consentir , convenir , concorder , accorder |
| German | zustimmen, einverstanden sein , sich verständigen , kongruieren , akzeptieren, annehmen |
| Portuguese | concordar, estar de acordo , aceitar |
| Spanish | estar de acuerdo, concordar, estar acorde, estar concorde , consensuar, apalabrar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does agree come from?
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”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).