agency

\ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si\

/\ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si\/ noun

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The verdict

“agency” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,541. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,541
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agence, bureau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agency · agency · French

agency · rank #25,541 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,541
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affligeant

Nearest frequency peer: affligeant (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « agency »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « agency » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

agency vs agent
67% similar
agency vs agents
67% similar
agency vs agenda
67% similar

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

Key facts for agency
PropertyValue
Headwordagency
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si\
Letters6
Frequency rank#25,541
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agency »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affligeant » (#25,540), « agneaux » (#25,542), « Akira » (#25,543). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agency » est au #25,541. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around agency (IPA \ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,541 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for agency, with forms such as "aegncy", "agecny", and "agenccy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "agent", "agents", "agenda", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is agency, spelled A-G-E-N-C-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agence, bureau.
  2. 2
    Organisme, autorité.
  3. 3
    Action, opération.
  4. 4
    Agentivité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. This Regulation establishes a European Union Agency for Asylum (the ‘Agency’).
  2. A European Chemicals Agency is established for the purposes of managing and in some cases carrying out the technical, scientific and administrative aspects of this Regulation and to ensure consistency at Community level in relation to these aspects.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aegncy
  • agecny
  • agenccy
  • agencyy
  • agenncy
  • agenyc
  • aggency
  • agnecy
  • gaency

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agency - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aegncy2agecny2agenccy1agencyy1agenncy1agenyc2aggency1agnecy2
Edit distance from "agency"

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 "agency"?
"agency" is spelled A-G-E-N-C-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si\.
What does "agency" mean?
As a noun, "agency" means: Agence, bureau.
What words are commonly confused with "agency"?
"agency" is commonly confused with "agent", "agents", "agenda". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agency"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agency" is \ˈeɪ.d͡ʒən.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agency" come from?
"agency" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

abonde#25,537wilaya#25,525unifié#25,520triage#25,515

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

agneaux9 variantsAnatole9 variantsassigner9 variantsbelieve9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list