agroécologie
\a.ɡʁɔ.e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“agroécologie” is uncommon French (frequency #64,221 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,221
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Science opposée à la normativité de l'agronomie, appliquant à l’agriculture les principes de l’écologie : respect des agriculteurs et de l'environnement, fertilisation naturelle, économie de l’eau ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agroécologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁɔ.e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agroécologie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
agroécologie is uncommon French at frequency #64,221 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡʁɔ.e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for agroécologie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is agroécologie, spelled A-G-R-O-É-C-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science opposée à la normativité de l'agronomie, appliquant à l’agriculture les principes de l’écologie : respect des agriculteurs et de l'environnement, fertilisation naturelle, économie de l’eau et de l’énergie, etc…
- 2Pratique ou mode de production agricole appliquant les principes de l’agroécologie.
- 3Mouvement prônant le respect des écosystèmes et intégrant les dimensions économiques, sociales et politiques de la vie humaine en agriculture.
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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Using “agroécologie”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-G-R-O-É-C-O-L-O-G-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ɡʁɔ.e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.