adult
[aˈdʊlt]
The verdict
“adult” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,243
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erwachsen, geschlechtsreif
Corpus desk
Index DE-adult · adult · German
adult · rank #22,243 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,243
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ahnte
Nearest frequency peer: ahnte (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „adult“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Abstiegskam…
Abstiegskampf
77,761 corpus weight
- Abstände
Abstände
77,760 corpus weight
- adult
adult
77,758 corpus weight
- ahnte
ahnte
77,757 corpus weight
- akustische
akustische
77,756 corpus weight
- alone
alone
77,755 corpus weight
What this shows „adult“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | adult |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aˈdʊlt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „adult“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around adult (IPA [aˈdʊlt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,243 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "erwachsen, geschlechtsreif".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for adult, with forms such as "addult", "adlut", and "adullt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "alt", "aut", "akut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is adult, spelled A-D-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1erwachsen, geschlechtsreif
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adult appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein rüder Trick, der aber eine kleine Sensation ermöglichte: In den maltraitierten Nagern hat Xiaobo Xu von der Vrije Universiteit in Brüssel nämlich erstmals jene adulten Stammzellen identifiziert, die in der erwachsenen Bauchspeicheldrüse schlummern und sich zu neuen, Insulin-produzierende Zellen entwickeln können.“
„Am meisten fasziniert die Forscher derzeit die "adulte Neurogenese", die Neugeburt von Nervenzellen bei Erwachsenen.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addult
- adlut
- adullt
- adultt
- adutl
- audlt
- dault
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adult - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adult", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).