agent
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,798
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
agent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est chargé d’une fonction, d’une mission, soit par un gouvernement ou par une administration, soit par un ou plusieurs particuliers. Pronounced \a.ʒɑ̃\. It ranks #1,798 in French word frequency. Often confused with agit and âgés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agent is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʒɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,798 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for agent, with forms such as "aegnt", "agennt", and "agentt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "agit", "âgés", "amen", 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 agent, spelled A-G-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est chargé d’une fonction, d’une mission, soit par un gouvernement ou par une administration, soit par un ou plusieurs particuliers.
- 2Fonctionnaire de police. → voir agent de police
- 3Celui qui représente un artiste, assure la gestion et le suivi de sa carrière, trouve des engagements, négocie les contrats, assure sa promotion.
- 4Ce qui agit.
- 5Tout ce qui agit, tout ce qui opère.
- 6Cause qui opère par opposition à un patient sur lequel elle opère.
- 7Personne ou chose qui fait une action, montrée généralement par un sujet dans la voix active.
- 8Logiciel envoyé sur un réseau pour effectuer une tâche à la place de l’utilisateur et sans son intervention.
- 9Personne travaillant pour un service de renseignement sans en faire partie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aegnt,agennt,agentt,agetn,aggent,agnet,gaent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agent
Misspelling Variants of "agent"
Frequency rank: #1,798 in French
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