agon
\a.ɡon\
The verdict
“agon” is uncommon French (frequency #68,783 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,783
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concours artistique ou compétition sportive entre les protagonistes et les antagonistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agon · agon · French
agon · rank #68,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,783
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Agni
Nearest frequency peer: Agni (-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 « agon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- afférent
afférent
31,221 corpus weight
- Afrika
Afrika
31,220 corpus weight
- Agni
Agni
31,219 corpus weight
- agon
agon
31,218 corpus weight
- aimantation
aimantation
31,217 corpus weight
- Akram
Akram
31,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡon\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agon is uncommon French at frequency #68,783 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡon\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for agon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is agon, spelled A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Concours artistique ou compétition sportive entre les protagonistes et les antagonistes.
- 2Toute compétition pour la prééminence dans un domaine sportif, artistique ou intellectuel.
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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