agilité

\a.ʒi.li.te\

/\a.ʒi.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“agilité” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,093
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande facilité à agir, à se mouvoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agilite · agilité · French

agilité · rank #23,093 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,093
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Aline

Nearest frequency peer: Aline (+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 « agilité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « agilité » 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).

agilité vs agité
71% similar
agilité vs avidité
71% similar
agilité vs agile
57% similar

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

Key facts for agilité
PropertyValue
Headwordagilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʒi.li.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,093
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agilité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.agilitése 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 « Aline » (#23,094), « adhérent » (#23,091), « alliez » (#23,095). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agilité » est au #23,093. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around agilité (IPA \a.ʒi.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,093 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for agilité, with forms such as "aggilité", "agiilté", and "agilite". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "agité", "avidité", "agile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is agilité, spelled A-G-I-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grande facilité à agir, à se mouvoir.
  2. 2
    Sport canin de parcours d’obstacles.
  3. 3
    Capacité d'une entreprise à s'adapter au changement.
  4. 4
    Lié aux approches ou méthodes dites agiles, parfois appelées méthode agile. Possiblement lié au sens économique ci-dessus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Kinkin, vers la quarantaine, était un gaillard de taille moyenne qui dissimulait sous des dehors chétifs et une allure pataude une force herculéenne et une agilité de singe.
  2. Elle prit son temps, elle calcula ses mouvements, et, avec une agilité de chatte, elle saisit les deux interrogatoires et les lança dans le feu ; mais Camusot les y reprit, la comtesse s’élança sur le juge et ressaisit les papiers enflammés.

Synonyms

dextéritéagility

This word in other languages

agility(English)agilidad(Español)Behändigkeit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aggilité
  • agiilté
  • agilite
  • agilitté
  • agiliét
  • agillité
  • agiltié
  • agliité
  • aiglité
  • gailité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agilité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aggilité1agiilté2agilite1agilitté1agiliét2agillité1agiltié2agliité2
Edit distance from "agilité"

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 "agilité"?
"agilité" is spelled A-G-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʒi.li.te\.
What does "agilité" mean?
As a noun, "agilité" means: Grande facilité à agir, à se mouvoir.
What words are commonly confused with "agilité"?
"agilité" is commonly confused with "agité", "avidité", "agile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agilité" is \a.ʒi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agilité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

amusait#23,097abordée#23,087archers#23,104écoulés#23,075

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

between10 variantsvolante10 variantsbrunch10 variantsVirgile10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list