Agathon
The verdict
“Agathon” is uncommon French (frequency #59,773 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,773
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agathon · Agathon · French
Agathon · rank #59,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,773
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agra
Nearest frequency peer: agra (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Agathon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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40,232 corpus weight
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40,231 corpus weight
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40,228 corpus weight
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40,227 corpus weight
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40,226 corpus weight
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40,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Agathon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agathon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Agathon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Agathon is uncommon French at frequency #59,773 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Agathon, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Agathon, spelled A-G-A-T-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Agathon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agathon Jean François Fain.
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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