agha
\a.ɡa\
The verdict
“agha” is uncommon French (frequency #72,049 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,049
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre d'un officier civil ou militaire, ou une partie de ce titre. En tant que titre, il était placé après le nom des militaires ou des fonctionnaires de la cour qui le recevait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agha · agha · French
agha · rank #72,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,049
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH afférente
Nearest frequency peer: afférente (-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 « agha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adosser
adosser
27,955 corpus weight
- aegis
aegis
27,954 corpus weight
- afférente
afférente
27,953 corpus weight
- agha
agha
27,952 corpus weight
- Akim
Akim
27,951 corpus weight
- alcalines
alcalines
27,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agha is uncommon French at frequency #72,049 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
agha has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is agha, spelled A-G-H-A.
Definition
- 1Titre d'un officier civil ou militaire, ou une partie de ce titre. En tant que titre, il était placé après le nom des militaires ou des fonctionnaires de la cour qui le recevait.
- 2Titre signifiant « monsieur » en Iran, au Pakistan et en Afghanistan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
AGA, ou AGHA. s. m. Terme d’Histoire & de Relation. Ce mot signifie dans la langue des Mogols, & dans celle des Khovarezmiens, un Homme puissant, un Seigneur, & un Commandant. Les Turcs se servent de ce mot pour signifier absolument un Commandant. Ainsi l’Aga des Janissaires est leur Colonel, & le Capi Aga est le Capitaine de la porte du Sérail. On donne…
Le trésorier particulier du sultan, Arif agha, fonctionnaire du premier rang.
This word in other languages
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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