agelaste
\a.ʒə.last\
The verdict
“agelaste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui ne sait pas rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agelaste · agelaste · French
agelaste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agelaste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒə.last\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agelaste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agelaste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʒə.last\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui ne sait pas rire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for agelaste, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is agelaste, spelled A-G-E-L-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui ne sait pas rire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agelaste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aulcuns ont à l’Autheur reprouché de ne pas plus sçavoir le languaige du vieulx temps que les lièvres ne se cognoissent à faire des fagots. Iadis ces gens eussent esté nommez, à bon escient, cannibales, agelastes, sycophantes, voire mesmes ung peu yssus de la bonne ville de Gomorrhe.
Lors de son passage dans l’espace cosmique, l’âme du véritable agelaste ne saura pénétrer en paradis.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.