agressif

/\a.ɡʁɛ.sif\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,591

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

agressif is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui tient de l’agression, qui a le caractère de l’agression. Pronounced \a.ɡʁɛ.sif\. It ranks #9,591 in French word frequency. Often confused with agression and agressive.

Key facts for agressif
PropertyValue
Headwordagressif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a.ɡʁɛ.sif\
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,591
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for agressif is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡʁɛ.sif\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,591 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui tient de l’agression, qui a le caractère de l’agression.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for agressif, with forms such as "agerssif", "aggressif", and "agresif". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "agression", "agressive", "agressifs", 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 agressif, spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui tient de l’agression, qui a le caractère de l’agression.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agerssif,aggressif,agresif,agresisf,agressfi,agressiff,agrressif,agrsesif,argessif,garessif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agressif

Misspelling Variants of "agressif"

agerssif8aggressif9agresif7agresisf8agressfi8agressiff9agrressif9agrsesif8
Misspelling Variants of "agressif"

Frequency rank: #9,591 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agressif"?
"agressif" is spelled A-G-R-E-S-S-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁɛ.sif\.
What does "agressif" mean?
As an adj, "agressif" means: Qui tient de l’agression, qui a le caractère de l’agression.
What words are commonly confused with "agressif"?
"agressif" is commonly confused with "agression", "agressive", "agressifs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agressif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agressif" is \a.ɡʁɛ.sif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agressif" come from?
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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.