agence
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,502
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
agence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organisme gérant des affaires pour le compte d'autrui. Pronounced \a.ʒɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,502 in French word frequency. Often confused with agent and amène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agence is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʒɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,502 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for agence, with forms such as "aegnce", "agecne", and "agencce". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "agent", "amène", "arène", 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 agence, spelled A-G-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organisme gérant des affaires pour le compte d'autrui.
- 2Organisme ayant pour tâche de centraliser des nouvelles, et de les transmettre à ses clients, à la presse, etc. agence de presse.
- 3Succursale, bureau local par rapport à la maison-mère ou à un centre régional.
- 4Endroit où se trouvent les bâtiments affectés à cet établissement.
- 5Rôle, action d’un agent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aegnce,agecne,agencce,agenec,agennce,aggence,agnece,gaence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agence
Misspelling Variants of "agence"
Frequency rank: #1,502 in French
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