agathe

/\a.ɡat\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,539

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

agathe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variété de tulipes. Pronounced \a.ɡat\. Often confused with agité and agitée.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of agathe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for agathe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡat\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,539 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variété de tulipes.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for agathe, with forms such as "aagthe", "agahte", and "agateh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is agathe, spelled A-G-A-T-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variété de tulipes.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aagthe,agahte,agateh,agathhe,agatthe,aggathe,agtahe,gaathe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agathe

Misspelling Variants of "agathe"

aagthe6agahte6agateh6agathhe7agatthe7aggathe7agtahe6gaathe6
Misspelling Variants of "agathe"

Frequency rank: #16,539 in French

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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.