agriculture

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for agriculture is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.tʃə/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,796 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for agriculture, with forms such as "aggriculture", "agirculture", and "agrciulture". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "agricultural", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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. 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 agriculture, spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.