agresseur

/\a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,817

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

agresseur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier. Pronounced \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\. Often confused with assesseur and agresseurs.

Key facts for agresseur
PropertyValue
Headwordagresseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,817
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of agresseur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for agresseur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,817 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for agresseur, with forms such as "agersseur", "aggresseur", and "agresesur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "assesseur", "agresseurs", "agresse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is agresseur, spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agersseur,aggresseur,agresesur,agreseur,agresseru,agresseurr,agressuer,agrresseur,agrseseur,argesseur,garesseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agresseur

Misspelling Variants of "agresseur"

agersseur9aggresseur10agresesur9agreseur8agresseru9agresseurr10agressuer9agrresseur10
Misspelling Variants of "agresseur"

Frequency rank: #10,817 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agresseur"?
"agresseur" is spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\.
What does "agresseur" mean?
As a noun, "agresseur" means: Celui qui agresse, attaque le premier.
What words are commonly confused with "agresseur"?
"agresseur" is commonly confused with "assesseur", "agresseurs", "agresse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agresseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agresseur" is \a.ɡʁɛ.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agresseur" come from?
"agresseur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.