agriculture

\a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\

/\a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“agriculture” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,799. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,799
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité ayant pour objet l'exploitation des terres par la production de végétaux et l'élevage d'animaux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-agriculture · agriculture · French

agriculture · rank #1,799 · 16 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,799
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH agent

Nearest frequency peer: agent (-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 « agriculture »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « agriculture » 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).

agriculture vs apiculture
82% similar
agriculture vs agriculteur
82% similar
agriculture vs agriculteurs
83% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « agriculture »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « agent » (#1,798), « allé » (#1,800), « accepter » (#1,797). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « agriculture » est au #1,799. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around agriculture (IPA \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,799 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for agriculture, with forms such as "aggriculture", "agirculture", and "agrciulture". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "apiculture", "agriculteur", "agriculteurs", 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 agriculture, spelled A-G-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Après avoir fait la guerre et le commerce nous allons faire de l’agriculture et tu seras notre intendant.
  2. Ensuite - lorsque, avec la découverte de l’élevage et de l’agriculture, un homme sut produire davantage qu'il ne lui fallait pour vivre - les vainqueurs trouvèrent plus commode de réduire les vaincus au servage et de les faire travailler pour eux.

This word in other languages

agriculture(English)agricultura(Español)Landwirtschaft(Deutsch)agricultura(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aggriculture
  • agirculture
  • agrciulture
  • agricculture
  • agricluture
  • agricullture
  • agricultrue
  • agricultture
  • agricultuer
  • agriculturre
  • agriculutre
  • agricutlure
  • agriuclture
  • agrriculture
  • argiculture
  • gariculture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agriculture - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aggriculture1agirculture2agrciulture2agricculture1agricluture2agricullture1agricultrue2agricultture1
Edit distance from "agriculture"

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 "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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

championnat#1,805disposition#1,734nécessaires#1,880proposition#1,887

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

kilomètres16 variantscommentaires16 variantsimportants16 variantsprofessionnel16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list