intelligence agency
"intelligence-agency" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intelligence agency” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A governmental agency that is tasked with information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intelligence agency |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intelligence agency” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for intelligence agency is 19 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A governmental agency that is tasked with information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for intelligence agency in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is intelligence agency, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-E- -A-G-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1A governmental agency that is tasked with information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “intelligence agency”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-E- -A-G-E-N-C-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.