agathe

\a.ɡat\

/\a.ɡat\/ noun

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The verdict

“agathe” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,539. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,539
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de tulipes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agathe · agathe · French

agathe · rank #16,539 · 8 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,539
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affectent

Nearest frequency peer: affectent (-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 « agathe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « agathe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

agathe vs agité
50% similar
agathe vs agitée
67% similar
agathe vs Apache
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for agathe
PropertyValue
Headwordagathe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡat\
Letters6
Frequency rank#16,539
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agathe »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).agathese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affectent » (#16,538), « Aignan » (#16,540), « adressent » (#16,537). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agathe » est au #16,539. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around agathe (IPA \a.ɡat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,539 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variété de tulipes.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for agathe, with forms such as "aagthe", "agahte", and "agateh". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "agité", "agitée", "Apache", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is agathe, spelled A-G-A-T-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variété de tulipes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how agathe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De cette fleur il passe à l’agathe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aagthe
  • agahte
  • agateh
  • agathhe
  • agatthe
  • aggathe
  • agtahe
  • gaathe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agathe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aagthe2agahte2agateh2agathhe1agatthe1aggathe1agtahe2gaathe2
Edit distance from "agathe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agathe"?
"agathe" is spelled A-G-A-T-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡat\.
What does "agathe" mean?
As a noun, "agathe" means: Variété de tulipes.
What words are commonly confused with "agathe"?
"agathe" is commonly confused with "agité", "agitée", "Apache". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agathe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agathe" is \a.ɡat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agathe" come from?
"agathe" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agathe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Aignan#16,540Alison#16,541apprit#16,546Bachar#16,553

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Bieber8 variantsÉmilie8 variantscatch8 variantschelou8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list