agriculture
ag·ri·cul·ture/ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/noun
agriculture is spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E, 4 syllables: ag·ri·cul·ture. The wrong spelling people search most is agriculure: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 385 of all searches for the word. Agriculture is a noun meaning “The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing…”. The plural of agriculture is agricultures.
How many letters and syllables are in agriculture?
| Letters | 11: A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: ag·ri·cul·ture |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,814th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, agriculure, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell agriculture?
Agriculture is spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 154 of the searches for agriculture 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 agriculture?
Agriculture appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th 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 agriculture?
- UK /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃə/
- US /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/
- US /ˈæɡ.ɹəˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/
Agriculture has 4 syllables, split ag·ri·cul·ture in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-agriculture.ogg, En-us-agriculture.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of agriculture
- agricultures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does agriculture mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.
Meronyms: tillage, cropping
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate agriculture?
Wiktionary records 7 abbreviations of agriculture: Ag, Agric., ag, agr., agri, agric, agric..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Agriculture in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the art or science of cultivating the ground:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agriculture |
| German | Landwirtschaft, Ackerbau, Agrikultur, Agrarwirtschaft |
| Portuguese | agricultura |
| Spanish | agricultura |
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 agriculture come from?
From Middle English agriculture, partly from Middle French agriculture and partly from its etymon Latin agricultūra, from ager (“field”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).