agri-food
/ˈæɡɹiˌfuːd/
"agri-food" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agri-food” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The business of producing food agriculturally (as opposed to through hunting, fishing, gathering, and so on); food so produced.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agri-food · agri-food · English
agri-food · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agri-food |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæɡɹiˌfuːd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agri-food” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agri-food is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæɡɹiˌfuːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The business of producing food agriculturally (as opposed to through hunting, fishing, gathering, and so on); food so produced.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for agri-food, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From agri- + food. The correct English form is agri-food, spelled A-G-R-I---F-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1The business of producing food agriculturally (as opposed to through hunting, fishing, gathering, and so on); food so produced.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agri-food appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Liberal statement does draw attention to its potential future agenda, namely, fisheries, forestry, agri-food, and mining, all resource-based sectors.
2007, F. Scala, A. Raio, A. Zoina, and M. Lorito, "Biological Control of Fruit and Vegetable Diseases with Fungal and Bacterial Antagonists: Trichoderma and Agrobacterium", chapter 7 of S. B. Chincholkar and K. G. Mukerji (eds.), Biological Control of Plant Diseases, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 177, Sales of organic products have increased dramatically in…
Etymology
From agri- + food.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.