agile

\a.ʒil\

/\a.ʒil\/ adj

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The verdict

“agile” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,229
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agile · agile · French

agile · rank #21,229 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,229
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aggravation

Nearest frequency peer: aggravation (-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 « agile »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « agile » 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).

agile vs ail
60% similar
agile vs aïe
40% similar
agile vs ale
60% similar

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

Key facts for agile
PropertyValue
Headwordagile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.ʒil\
Letters5
Frequency rank#21,229
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agile »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aggravation » (#21,228), « aligne » (#21,230), « Alix » (#21,231). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agile » est au #21,229. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around agile (IPA \a.ʒil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,229 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple.
  2. 2
    Élément 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.
  3. 3
    Au sens figuré, et par extension du sens précédent, qualifie une activité intellectuelle collective

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quand, pour venir me retrouver, tu gravis les coteaux où mûrit la vigne, les prés où s’élèvent les ormeaux, je sais que tu vas plus agile que le chamois.
  2. Prenez vos plumes sacrées, vous qui composez les annales de l'Église : agiles instruments d'un prompt écrivain et d'une main diligente, hâtez-vous de mettre Louis avec les Constantin et les Théodose.

Synonyms

adroitalerteardentdécoupléélégantfringantînellestepromptrapideturbulentvifvite

This word in other languages

agile(English)ágil(Español)gewandt(Deutsch)ágil(Português)

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.

aggile1agiel2agille1aglie2gaile2
Edit distance from "agile"

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 "agile"?
"agile" is spelled A-G-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʒil\.
What does "agile" mean?
As an adjective, "agile" means: Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple.
What words are commonly confused with "agile"?
"agile" is commonly confused with "ail", "aïe", "ale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agile" is \a.ʒil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agile" come from?
"agile" 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 "agile", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Anita#21,237appât#21,239bling#21,251Bowie#21,255

Similar misspelling depth

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

Alix5 variantsbibi5 variantsbrio5 variantsToni5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list