agace
\a.ɡas\
The verdict
“agace” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,638
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de la pie bavarde dans plusieurs parties de la France ou de la Belgique. On trouve les graphies agace, agasse, agache.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agace · agace · French
agace · rank #18,638 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,638
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affiliation
Nearest frequency peer: affiliation (-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 « agace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- achetées
achetées
81,366 corpus weight
- affectif
affectif
81,365 corpus weight
- affiliation
affiliation
81,364 corpus weight
- agace
agace
81,363 corpus weight
- alba
alba
81,362 corpus weight
- Albi
Albi
81,361 corpus weight
What this shows « agace » 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 | agace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around agace (IPA \a.ɡas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,638 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for agace, with forms such as "aagce", "agacce", and "agaec". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "âge", "âgée", "Agde", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is agace, spelled A-G-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de la pie bavarde dans plusieurs parties de la France ou de la Belgique. On trouve les graphies agace, agasse, agache.
- 2Allumeuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le hasard les [aigle et pie] assemble en un coin détourné ; L’agace eut peur ; mais l’aigle, ayant fort bien dîné, La rassure […]
beau trophée ou belle captive, agace ou fille facile
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aagce
- agacce
- agaec
- agcae
- aggace
- gaace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agace - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agace", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).