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“agiles” and “agité” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#39,140
“agiles” frequency rank
#14,594
“agité” frequency rank
53734
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agiles agité
Definition Pluriel de agile. Qui est animé d’un mouvement vif et irrégulier.

Where the eye mixes agiles and agité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. agiles runs 6 letters (VCVCVC) against agité's 5 (VCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
agiles
5 ch
agité

Visual trap between agiles and agité

A purely visual mix-up. agiles (\a.ʒil\) and agité (\a.ʒi.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53734, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agiles is recorded at frequency rank #39,140, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒil\. agité is at rank #14,594, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒi.te\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 53734, this pair ranks #138,739 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of agiles vs agité

Shared letters: agi. Private to "agiles": els. Private to "agité": té.

"agiles" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "agité" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • agiles ← aggiles · agiels · agiless · agilles · agilse · aglies · gailes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "agiles" and "agité" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\a.ʒil\ versus \a.ʒi.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "agiles" or "agité"?
"agité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,594 in our French list, against #39,140 for "agiles". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "agiles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #138,739 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agiles" and "agité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agiles vs agitées". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #138,739 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list