agriculture

/\a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,799

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

agriculture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Activité ayant pour objet l'exploitation des terres par la production de végétaux et l'élevage d'animaux. Pronounced \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\. It ranks #1,799 in French word frequency. Often confused with apiculture and agriculteur.

Key facts for agriculture
PropertyValue
Headwordagriculture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#1,799
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for agriculture is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,799 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for agriculture, with forms such as "aggriculture", "agirculture", and "agrciulture". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "apiculture", "agriculteur", "agriculteurs", 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 agriculture, spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Activité ayant pour objet l'exploitation des terres par la production de végétaux et l'élevage d'animaux.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des activités dont la fonction est de produire un revenu financier à partir de l’exploitation de la terre (cultures), des forêts (foresterie), des produits de la mer, lacs et rivières (aquaculture, pêche), des animaux de ferme (élevage) et des animaux sauvages (chasse).
  3. 3
    L'ensemble des agriculteurs et des exploitations agricoles.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aggriculture,agirculture,agrciulture,agricculture,agricluture,agricullture,agricultrue,agricultture,agricultuer,agriculturre,agriculutre,agricutlure,agriuclture,agrriculture,argiculture,gariculture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agriculture

Misspelling Variants of "agriculture"

aggriculture12agirculture11agrciulture11agricculture12agricluture11agricullture12agricultrue11agricultture12
Misspelling Variants of "agriculture"

Frequency rank: #1,799 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agriculture"?
"agriculture" is spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\.
What does "agriculture" mean?
As a noun, "agriculture" means: Activité ayant pour objet l'exploitation des terres par la production de végétaux et l'élevage d'animaux.
What words are commonly confused with "agriculture"?
"agriculture" is commonly confused with "apiculture", "agriculteur", "agriculteurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agriculture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agriculture" is \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agriculture" come from?
"agriculture" 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.