ado

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/[…]/ verb

The verdict

“ado” is uncommon German (frequency #57,637 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,637
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs adyti

Corpus desk

Index DE-ado · ado · German

ado · rank #57,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,637
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Acapulco

Nearest frequency peer: Acapulco (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ado“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ado“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ado
PropertyValue
Headwordado
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters3
Frequency rank#57,637
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „ado“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).adofällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Acapulco“ (#57,636), „Aggressor“ (#57,638), „abtrünnige“ (#57,635). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „ado“ bei #57,637. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ado is uncommon German at frequency #57,637 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ado, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 German form is ado, spelled A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs adyti
  2. 2
    3. Person Plural Präsens Indikativ des Verbs adyti

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ado"?
"ado" is spelled A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "ado" mean?
As a verb, "ado" means: 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs adyti
How do you pronounce "ado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ado" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ado" come from?
"ado" is a German 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 German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list