agitévsAngieWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: agité is a adjective, Angie is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“agité” is an adjective and “Angie” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,594
“agité” frequency rank
#30,053
“Angie” frequency rank
44647
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agité Angie
Definition Qui est animé d’un mouvement vif et irrégulier. Prénom féminin, diminutif de Angelina.

Letter map: agité vs Angie

Shared letters muted; letters that set agité and Angie apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. agité (VCVCV) and Angie (VCCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
agité
5 ch
Angie

Grammar separator: agité vs Angie

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: agité is anadjective and Angieaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44647, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agité is recorded at frequency rank #14,594, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒi.te\. Angie is at rank #30,053, tagged as aname.

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 44647, this pair ranks #208,877 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of agité vs Angie

Shared letters: agi. Private to "agité": té. Private to "Angie": en.

"agité" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "Angie" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Angie ← agnie · angei · anggie · anige · anngie · nagie

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "agité" for "Angie" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "agité" is an adjective and "Angie" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "agité" vs "Angie" - which ranks higher?
"agité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,594 in our French list, against #30,053 for "Angie". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "agité" vs "Angie" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "agité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Angie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #208,877 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agité" and "Angie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Angie vs Augier". 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 #208,877 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