agile
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,229
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
agile is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple. Pronounced \a.ʒil\. Often confused with ail and aïe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.ʒil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agile is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for agile, with forms such as "aggile", "agiel", and "agille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ail", "aïe", "ale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is agile, spelled A-G-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aggile,agiel,agille,aglie,gaile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agile
Misspelling Variants of "agile"
Frequency rank: #21,229 in French
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