agronomy
/əˈɡɹɒnəmi/
"agronomy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agronomy” is an uncommon English word, ranked #57,206 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,206
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The science of utilizing plants, animals and soils for food, fuel, feed, and fiber and more. To do this effectively and sustainably, agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agronomy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈɡɹɒnəmi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agronomy” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for agronomy is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈɡɹɒnəmi/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,206 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The science of utilizing plants, animals and soils for food, fuel, feed, and fiber and more. To do this effectively and sustainably, agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for agronomy, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French agronomie, from agronome (“agriculturist”), from Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”). By surface analysis, agro- + -nomy. The correct English form is agronomy, spelled A-G-R-O-N-O-M-Y.
Definition
- 1The science of utilizing plants, animals and soils for food, fuel, feed, and fiber and more. To do this effectively and sustainably, agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, animal sciences and soil science.
Etymology
From French agronomie, from agronome (“agriculturist”), from Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”). By surface analysis, agro- + -nomy.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is A-G-R-O-N-O-M-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.