agaçant
\a.ɡa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“agaçant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,603
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui provoque une sensation d'irritation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agacant · agaçant · French
agaçant · rank #26,603 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,603
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adressait
Nearest frequency peer: adressait (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « agaçant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- admises
admises
73,400 corpus weight
- adressait
adressait
73,399 corpus weight
- agaçant
agaçant
73,398 corpus weight
- agglo
agglo
73,397 corpus weight
- agitent
agitent
73,396 corpus weight
- agresse
agresse
73,395 corpus weight
What this shows « agaçant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agaçant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ɡa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agaçant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around agaçant (IPA \a.ɡa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,603 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for agaçant, with forms such as "aagçant", "agaaçnt", and "agacant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "agitant", "avançant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is agaçant, spelled A-G-A-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui provoque une sensation d'irritation.
- 2Qui cherche à provoquer, à aguicher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agaçant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne disait pas une phrase que mes oreilles ne fussent assourdies par ce mot qui tintinnabulait sans cesse et secouait sur moi l’agaçante et folle musique de ses mille grelots.
Je pris les airs d’une femme de qualité ; &, devenant aussi avare de regards agaçans que j’en avois jusqu’alors été prodigue, je résolus de n’arrêter ma vue que sur des ducs, des comtes & des marquis. […] Si j’étois sur la scène, je lui semblois, en jouant, lancer des œillades agaçantes sur quelque jeune cavalier ; & il m’accabloit de reproches.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aagçant
- agaaçnt
- agacant
- agaçannt
- agaçantt
- agaçatn
- agaçnat
- aggaçant
- agçaant
- gaaçant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agaçant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).