agonise
\a.ɡɔ.niz\
The verdict
“agonise” is uncommon French (frequency #54,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,382
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe agoniser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agonise · agonise · French
agonise · rank #54,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,382
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH afghanes
Nearest frequency peer: afghanes (-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 « agonise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adjuvants
adjuvants
45,623 corpus weight
- adverbes
adverbes
45,621 corpus weight
- afghanes
afghanes
45,620 corpus weight
- agonise
agonise
45,619 corpus weight
- Agostino
Agostino
45,618 corpus weight
- Aguilera
Aguilera
45,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agonise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agonise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ɡɔ.niz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agonise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agonise is uncommon French at frequency #54,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ɡɔ.niz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for agonise, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is agonise, spelled A-G-O-N-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe agoniser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe agoniser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe agoniser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe agoniser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent du verbe agoniser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how agonise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il est en train de mourir, c’est qu’il est encore vivant. Il agonise.
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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