agoniste
\a.ɡɔ.nist\
The verdict
“agoniste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lutteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agoniste · agoniste · French
agoniste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agoniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡɔ.nist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agoniste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agoniste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡɔ.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
agoniste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is agoniste, spelled A-G-O-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Lutteur.
- 2Muscle à l’origine d’un mouvement.
- 3Molécule qui se lie à un récepteur et déclenche une réponse biologique semblable à celle du ligand naturel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agoniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en est de même pour la statue du Dieu, que l’agoniste vainqueur lui consacre.
Dans la flexion du bras, l’agoniste est le muscle grand pectoral, qui recouvre la face antérieure du thorax (et qui s’insère sur l’humérus). — (Elaine Marieb, Katja Hoehn, Anatomie et physiologie humaines, Pearson Éducation France, 2014)
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.