agile
\a.ʒil\
The verdict
“agile” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,229 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #21,229
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple.
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 | agile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʒil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agile” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agile is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʒil\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,229 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for agile, with forms such as "aggile", "agiel", and "agille". 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, "ail", "aïe", "ale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is agile, spelled A-G-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple.
- 2Élément de langage correspondant à une manière de travailler en équipe, au sens des méthodes agiles ou des approches agiles inspirées du manifeste agile. Est parfois écrit Agile quoi qu'à l'oral on ne fasse pas la différence entre les deux graphies. La méthode ou l'approche peut consister à élaborer des produits ou des services de manière itérative et incrémentale, en petites équipes auto-organisées et pluridisciplinaires, en impliquant le client tout au long du processus et en s'améliorant en continu grâce à un feedback permanent. Les éléments de langage sont décrits dans l'article méthode agile.
- 3Au sens figuré, et par extension du sens précédent, qualifie une activité intellectuelle collective
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aggile,agiel,agille,aglie,gaile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “agile”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-G-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ʒil\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ail” - see the side-by-side comparison. agile vs ail
- 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.