Agay
The verdict
“Agay” is uncommon French (frequency #77,199 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,199
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu-dit français situé dans la commune de Saint-Raphaël dans le département du Var.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agay · Agay · French
Agay · rank #77,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,199
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH AFK
Nearest frequency peer: AFK (-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 « Agay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adopteront
adopteront
22,804 corpus weight
- AFK
AFK
22,803 corpus weight
- Agay
Agay
22,802 corpus weight
- agencements
agencements
22,801 corpus weight
- ager
ager
22,800 corpus weight
- aggro
aggro
22,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Agay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Agay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Agay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Agay is uncommon French at frequency #77,199 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu-dit français situé dans la commune de Saint-Raphaël dans le département du Var.".
Agay has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Agay, spelled A-G-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Lieu-dit français situé dans la commune de Saint-Raphaël dans le département du Var.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Agay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agay c’est là-bas, à côté de Saint-Raphaël, bleu et or comme une affiche séduisante, au bord de cette mer qui n’en est pas une, qui ne bouge guère, s’endort en rond dans les baies.
La plage microtidale d’Agay, située sur la commune de Saint-Raphaël (83), présente une forme en arc de cercle sur un kilomètre.
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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