agrandir

\a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\

/\a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“agrandir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,513
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre plus grand.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agrandir · agrandir · French

agrandir · rank #12,513 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,513
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Adèle

Nearest frequency peer: Adèle (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « agrandir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « agrandir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

agrandir vs agrandit
88% similar
agrandir vs arrondir
75% similar
agrandir vs agrandis
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for agrandir
PropertyValue
Headwordagrandir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,513
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agrandir »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.agrandirse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Adèle » (#12,512), « allonger » (#12,514), « antécédents » (#12,515). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agrandir » est au #12,513. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around agrandir (IPA \a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,513 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for agrandir, with forms such as "agarndir", "aggrandir", and "agradnir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "agrandit", "arrondir", "agrandis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is agrandir, spelled A-G-R-A-N-D-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre plus grand.
  2. 2
    Rendre plus grand en puissance, en biens, en dignité, en fortune, en vertu.
  3. 3
    Faire paraître plus grand.
  4. 4
    Donner un caractère de grandeur à ce qu’on dit, à ce qu’on écrit, à ce qu’on fait.
  5. 5
    Exagérer.
  6. 6
    Porter son ambition, ses désirs plus haut, plus loin.
  7. 7
    Particulièrement Augmenter sa terre, son domaine, sa maison.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Peu à peu, il agrandit son établissement, lui adjoignit un hôtel borgne où de savantes passes lui assurèrent de larges profits.
  2. Philéas Beauvisage, garçon sage et plein de respect pour sa mère, eut bientôt conclu l’affaire avec son patron ; et comme il tenait de ses parents la bosse que les phrénologistes appellent l’acquisivité, son ardeur de jeunesse se porta sur ce commerce qui lui parut magnifique et qu’il voulut agrandir par la spéculation.

This word in other languages

enlarge(English)ampliar(Español)vergrößern(Deutsch)ampliar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agarndir
  • aggrandir
  • agradnir
  • agranddir
  • agrandirr
  • agrandri
  • agranidr
  • agranndir
  • agrnadir
  • agrrandir
  • argandir
  • garandir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agrandir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

agarndir2aggrandir1agradnir2agranddir1agrandirr1agrandri2agranidr2agranndir1
Edit distance from "agrandir"

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 "agrandir"?
"agrandir" is spelled A-G-R-A-N-D-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\.
What does "agrandir" mean?
As a verb, "agrandir" means: Rendre plus grand.
What words are commonly confused with "agrandir"?
"agrandir" is commonly confused with "agrandit", "arrondir", "agrandis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agrandir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agrandir" is \a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agrandir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

allonger#12,514acquiert#12,509élégante#12,504vignoble#12,499

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

banlieues12 variantsconsigne12 variantssuperman12 variantssollicité12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list