agreste
\a.ɡʁɛst\
The verdict
“agreste” is uncommon French (frequency #68,020 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,020
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux champs, à la campagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agreste · agreste · French
agreste · rank #68,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,020
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agree
Nearest frequency peer: agree (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « agreste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affleurement
affleurement
31,984 corpus weight
- aghion
aghion
31,983 corpus weight
- agree
agree
31,982 corpus weight
- agreste
agreste
31,981 corpus weight
- agrégées
agrégées
31,980 corpus weight
- agrémentées
agrémentées
31,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agreste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agreste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agreste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agreste is uncommon French at frequency #68,020 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ɡʁɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for agreste in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is agreste, spelled A-G-R-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux champs, à la campagne.
- 2Qui est rude, qui manque de civilité.
- 3Qui a un goût âpre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agreste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré la silencieuse immobilité des aubépines, cette intermittente odeur était comme le murmure de leur vie intense dont l’autel vibrait ainsi qu’une haie agreste visitée par de vivantes antennes.
Narcisse, comme dans toutes les bonnes maisons, était délégué par monsieur le curé pour aller au-devant de Monseigneur et le saluer de la part de son maître, propriétaire de ce manoir agreste que l’on appelle humblement le presbytère.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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