agrammatical
\a.ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\
The verdict
“agrammatical” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne respecte pas la grammaire considérée comme l’ensemble des règles définissant le discours correct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agrammatical · agrammatical · French
agrammatical · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | agrammatical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agrammatical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agrammatical is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for agrammatical, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is agrammatical, spelled A-G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui ne respecte pas la grammaire considérée comme l’ensemble des règles définissant le discours correct.
- 2Qui ne respecte pas les règles de production d’un énoncé propres à une langue donnée. Noam Chomsky a montré que la phrase « d’incolores idées vertes dorment furieusement » n’est pas agrammaticale mais inacceptable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agrammatical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« En descendant de vélo, une vache me regardait. » Cette phrase est agrammaticale, sauf si l’on considère que c’est la vache qui descendait du vélo.
L’emploi du mode subjonctif derrière la locution conjonctive « après que » est agrammatical.
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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.