ager
\a.ʒe\
The verdict
“ager” is uncommon French (frequency #77,201 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,201
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie cultivée du territoire ou du domaine médiéval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ager · ager · French
ager · rank #77,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,201
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agencements
Nearest frequency peer: agencements (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ager »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- AFK
AFK
22,803 corpus weight
- Agay
Agay
22,802 corpus weight
- agencements
agencements
22,801 corpus weight
- ager
ager
22,800 corpus weight
- aggro
aggro
22,799 corpus weight
- aidèrent
aidèrent
22,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ager is uncommon French at frequency #77,201 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie cultivée du territoire ou du domaine médiéval.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ager, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ager, spelled A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Partie cultivée du territoire ou du domaine médiéval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la trilogie classique de l’espace rural, l’ager et la silva sont d’identification aisée, tant au niveau de l’écologie qu’à ceux des systèmes de production ou des modes d’appropriation et de gestion. Le saltus en revanche apparaît une catégorie fourre-tout, tant en termes de couverts végétaux que d’utilisation, même si l’usage pastoral y occupe de fai…
On considère que pour renouveler la fertilité de ces friches herbeuses, il faut environ trois ans, voire davantage. La solution pour passer à une rotation biennale consiste à opérer un transfert de fertilité du saltus à l’ager.
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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