agence de presse
\a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\
The verdict
“agence de presse” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agence de presse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agence de presse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agence de presse is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for agence de presse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is agence de presse, spelled A-G-E-N-C-E- -D-E- -P-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.
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.
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Using “agence de presse”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-G-E-N-C-E- -D-E- -P-R-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.