Adah
"adah" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adah” is uncommon English (frequency #97,760 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,760
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The wife of Lamech
Corpus desk
Index EN-adah · Adah · English
Adah · rank #97,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,760
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH actus
Nearest frequency peer: actus (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Adah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acquits
acquits
2,244 corpus weight
- ActionScript
ActionScript
2,243 corpus weight
- actus
actus
2,242 corpus weight
- Adah
Adah
2,241 corpus weight
- Adeyemi
Adeyemi
2,239 corpus weight
- adjoin
adjoin
2,238 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Adah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Adah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Adah is uncommon English at frequency #97,760 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Adah in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”). The correct English form is Adah, spelled A-D-A-H.
Definition
- 1The wife of Lamech
- 2The wife of Esau.
- 3A female given name from Hebrew.
Etymology
From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).