agoniser

\a.ɡɔ.ni.ze\

/\a.ɡɔ.ni.ze\/ verb

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The verdict

“agoniser” is uncommon French (frequency #61,286 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,286
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être à l’agonie ; être en train de mourir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agoniser · agoniser · French

agoniser · rank #61,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,286
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH AGIRC

Nearest frequency peer: AGIRC (-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 « agoniser »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agoniser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for agoniser
PropertyValue
Headwordagoniser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ɡɔ.ni.ze\
Letters8
Frequency rank#61,286
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « agoniser » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).agonisertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « AGIRC » (#61,285), « agrémentés » (#61,287), « affut » (#61,284). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agoniser » est au #61,286. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

agoniser is uncommon French at frequency #61,286 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ɡɔ.ni.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être à l’agonie ; être en train de mourir.".

agoniser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is agoniser, spelled A-G-O-N-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être à l’agonie ; être en train de mourir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] ; le poème se termine par la douleur inguérissable de l'homme quand, assis au chevet d'une mère, il la regarde agoniser.
  2. Mission dangereuse. Il faut ramper par un boyau bouleversé, marmité, où déjà plusieurs des nôtres agonisent.

This word in other languages

agonize(English)agonizar(Español)im Sterben liegen(Deutsch)agonizar(Português)

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 "agoniser"?
"agoniser" is spelled A-G-O-N-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡɔ.ni.ze\.
What does "agoniser" mean?
As a verb, "agoniser" means: Être à l’agonie ; être en train de mourir.
How do you pronounce "agoniser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agoniser" is \a.ɡɔ.ni.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

adossées#61,280adaptera#61,279anguleux#61,297apaisées#61,299

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list