agente
\a.ʒɑ̃t\
The verdict
“agente” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #34,396 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #34,396
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celle qui est chargée d’une fonction, d’une mission, soit par un gouvernement soit par une administration, soit par un ou plusieurs particuliers.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agente” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agente is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʒɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,396 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. 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 agente, with forms such as "aegnte", "agenet", and "agennte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ante", "aient", "amène", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is agente, spelled A-G-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est chargée d’une fonction, d’une mission, soit par un gouvernement soit par une administration, soit par un ou plusieurs particuliers.
- 2Fonctionnaire de police.
- 3(Suivi de de) Celle qui agit dans une profession.
- 4Ce qui agit.
- 5Personne ou chose qui fait une action, montrée généralement par un sujet dans la voix active.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aegnte,agenet,agennte,agentte,agetne,aggente,agnete,gaente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agente - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Using “agente”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-G-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ʒɑ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ante” - see the side-by-side comparison. agente vs ante
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.