agripper
\a.ɡʁi.pe\
The verdict
“agripper” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,901
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saisir de façon très ferme, avide ou désespérée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agripper · agripper · French
agripper · rank #48,901 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,901
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affects
Nearest frequency peer: affects (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “agripper”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- advenant
advenant
51,103 corpus weight
- affects
affects
51,102 corpus weight
- agripper
agripper
51,100 corpus weight
- ains
ains
51,098 corpus weight
- alarmistes
alarmistes
51,097 corpus weight
- albertains
albertains
51,096 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “agripper” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agripper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁi.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agripper” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around agripper (IPA \a.ɡʁi.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,901 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for agripper, with forms such as "aggripper", "agirpper", and "agripepr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "agrippa", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is agripper, spelled A-G-R-I-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Saisir de façon très ferme, avide ou désespérée.
- 2Se saisir de façon très ferme, avide ou désespérée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agripper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette affection était quand même très intime ? reprit Gassin en agrippant un brin d’herbe qu’il se mit à suçailler.
— La perche, une perche, reprit Grangibus qui ne perdait plus le nord.[…] Il s’y agrippa désespérément et les cinq sauveteurs, se cramponnant comme ils pouvaient à l’autre bout, amenèrent enfin, à plat ventre, au rivage le malheureux pêcheur de grenouilles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aggripper
- agirpper
- agripepr
- agriper
- agripperr
- agrippre
- agrpiper
- agrripper
- argipper
- garipper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agripper - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "agripper", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "agrippa". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #48,901 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.