agnel
\a.ɲɛl\
The verdict
“agnel” is uncommon French (frequency #64,910 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,910
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie d’or, du Moyen Âge, qui portait un agneau pour empreinte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agnel · agnel · French
agnel · rank #64,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,910
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Agassiz
Nearest frequency peer: Agassiz (-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 « agnel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acéré
acéré
35,094 corpus weight
- afterwork
afterwork
35,093 corpus weight
- Agassiz
Agassiz
35,092 corpus weight
- agnel
agnel
35,091 corpus weight
- agricultures
agricultures
35,090 corpus weight
- alaouite
alaouite
35,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agnel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agnel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɲɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agnel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agnel is uncommon French at frequency #64,910 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɲɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Monnaie d’or, du Moyen Âge, qui portait un agneau pour empreinte.".
Zero misspellings are on record for agnel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is agnel, spelled A-G-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Monnaie d’or, du Moyen Âge, qui portait un agneau pour empreinte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agnel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les derniers agnels furent frappés à l’époque de Charles VII.
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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