Agen

\a.ʒɛ̃\

/\a.ʒɛ̃\/ name

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The verdict

“Agen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,610) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#17,610
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agen · Agen · French

Agen · rank #17,610 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,610
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH admets

Nearest frequency peer: admets (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Agen »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Agen » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

Agen vs an
25% similar
Agen vs âme
25% similar
Agen vs axe
25% similar

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

Key facts for Agen
PropertyValue
HeadwordAgen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.ʒɛ̃\
Letters4
Frequency rank#17,610
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Agen »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « admets » (#17,609), « Airbnb » (#17,611), « adaptations » (#17,608). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Agen » est au #17,610. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Agen is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "âme", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \a.ʒɛ̃\. Frequency #17,610 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Agen, with forms such as "aegn", "agenn", and "aggen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "âme", "axe", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Agen, spelled A-G-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. J’imaginais la 6 212 quittant Agen, à l’heure où la colline calcaire de l’Ermitage, au-dessus de la gare, étincelle comme un morceau de sucre.

This word in other languages

Agen(English)Agen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aegn
  • agenn
  • aggen
  • gaen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Agen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aegn2agenn1aggen1gaen2
Edit distance from "Agen"

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 "Agen"?
"Agen" is spelled A-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʒɛ̃\.
What does "Agen" mean?
As a proper noun, "Agen" means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
What words are commonly confused with "Agen"?
"Agen" is commonly confused with "an", "âme", "axe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Agen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Agen" is \a.ʒɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Agen" come from?
"Agen" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ôter#17,605Yvan#17,595year#17,594came#17,645

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list