Agostini

name

The verdict

“Agostini” is uncommon French (frequency #57,730 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,730
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille italien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agostini · Agostini · French

Agostini · rank #57,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,730
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affaiblissant

Nearest frequency peer: affaiblissant (-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 « Agostini »

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 « Agostini » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Agostini
PropertyValue
HeadwordAgostini
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#57,730
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Agostini » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « affaiblissant » (#57,729), « agrès » (#57,731), « adorno » (#57,727). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Agostini » est au #57,730. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Agostini is uncommon French at frequency #57,730 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille italien.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Agostini, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Agostini, spelled A-G-O-S-T-I-N-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille italien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La Franco-Suédoise Anne L’Huillier, le Français Pierre Agostini et l’Austro-Hongrois Ferenc Krausz ont été récompensés, mardi, du prix Nobel de physique pour leurs recherches sur les flashs lumineux ayant permis de comprendre les mouvements ultrarapides des électrons dans les atomes et les molécules.

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 "Agostini"?
"Agostini" is spelled A-G-O-S-T-I-N-I.
What does "Agostini" mean?
As a proper noun, "Agostini" means: Nom de famille italien.
What language does "Agostini" come from?
"Agostini" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list