agglomération

\a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃\

/\a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“agglomération” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,582
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’agglomérer, de s'agglomérer ; résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agglomeration · agglomération · French

agglomération · rank #6,582 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,582
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Afghanistan

Nearest frequency peer: Afghanistan (-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 « agglomération »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « agglomération » 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).

agglomération vs agglomérations
93% similar

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

Key facts for agglomération
PropertyValue
Headwordagglomération
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#6,582
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agglomération »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.agglomérationse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Afghanistan » (#6,581), « airs » (#6,583), « allés » (#6,584). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agglomération » est au #6,582. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around agglomération (IPA \a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,582 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for agglomération, with forms such as "aggllomération", "agglmoération", and "agglomeration". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "agglomérations", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is agglomération, spelled A-G-G-L-O-M-É-R-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’agglomérer, de s'agglomérer ; résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Groupement d'habitations formant un village, un bourg, une ville.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De cette agglomération brumeuse disposée à l'horizon et qui formait le noyau du météore, s'irradiaient des effluves ardentes, […].
  2. Les opérations de broyage marquent usuellement le terme des opérations d’épuration des fines, que celles-ci soient destinées à l’agglomération ou à la carbonisation.

This word in other languages

agglomeration(English)aglomeración(Español)Ballungsraum(Deutsch)aglomerado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aggllomération
  • agglmoération
  • agglomeration
  • agglommération
  • agglomréation
  • aggloméartion
  • aggloméraiton
  • agglomératino
  • agglomérationn
  • agglomératoin
  • agglomérattion
  • agglomérration
  • agglomértaion
  • aggloémration
  • aggolmération
  • aglgomération
  • aglomération
  • gaglomération

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agglomération - 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.

aggllomération1agglmoération2agglomeration1agglommération1agglomréation2aggloméartion2aggloméraiton2agglomératino2
Edit distance from "agglomération"

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 "agglomération"?
"agglomération" is spelled A-G-G-L-O-M-É-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "agglomération" mean?
As a noun, "agglomération" means: Action d’agglomérer, de s'agglomérer ; résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "agglomération"?
"agglomération" is commonly confused with "agglomérations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agglomération"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agglomération" is \a.ɡlɔ.me.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agglomération" come from?
"agglomération" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

télécharger18 variantsintéressants18 variantsfondamentaux18 variantsavertissement18 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list