Adana
"adana" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adana” is uncommon English (frequency #67,201 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,201
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A province and metropolitan municipality in central Cilicia, in southern Turkey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adana · Adana · English
Adana · rank #67,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,201
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acha
Nearest frequency peer: acha (-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 “Adana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abled
abled
32,803 corpus weight
- aboot
aboot
32,802 corpus weight
- acha
acha
32,801 corpus weight
- Adana
Adana
32,800 corpus weight
- admonish
admonish
32,798 corpus weight
- affectation
affectation
32,796 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Adana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Adana” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Adana is uncommon English at frequency #67,201 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Adana, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Turkish Adana, from Ottoman Turkish آطنه (Adana), from Ancient Greek Ἄδανα (Ádana). The correct English form is Adana, spelled A-D-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1A province and metropolitan municipality in central Cilicia, in southern Turkey.
- 2A city, the capital of Adana Province, Turkey.
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkish Adana, from Ottoman Turkish آطنه (Adana), from Ancient Greek Ἄδανα (Ádana).
Synonyms
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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