agrammatical
\a.ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\
The verdict
“agrammatical” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui ne respecte pas la grammaire considérée comme l’ensemble des règles définissant le discours correct.
| 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) |
Where “agrammatical” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agrammatical is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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.
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Using “agrammatical”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.