agence de presse
\a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\
The verdict
“agence de presse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société qui emploie des correspondants locaux à écrire des dépêches sur les événements de l’endroit, pour les revendre à d’autres médias.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agence-de-presse · agence de presse · French
agence de presse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « agence de presse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agence de presse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʒɑ̃s də pʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agence de presse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet article de journal n’est pas beaucoup plus étoffé qu’une dépêche d’agence de presse.
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.