adat
"adat" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adat” is uncommon English (frequency #88,030 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,030
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adat · adat · English
adat · rank #88,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,030
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH actualize
Nearest frequency peer: actualize (-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 “adat”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- accustom
accustom
11,974 corpus weight
- actualize
actualize
11,972 corpus weight
- adat
adat
11,971 corpus weight
- agarose
agarose
11,970 corpus weight
- aguayo
aguayo
11,968 corpus weight
- Ahearn
Ahearn
11,967 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adat” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adat” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adat is uncommon English at frequency #88,030 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adat, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Malay adat, from Classical Persian عادت ('ādat), from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”), from the verb عَوْدَ (ʕawda, “to appertain, to be proper”). The correct English form is adat, spelled A-D-A-T.
Definition
- 1Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he early-nineteenth-century Padri movement […] was an accelerated programme of religious renewal in West Sumatra, an attempt to cleanse Islam of adat or local customary law and practices.
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay adat, from Classical Persian عادت ('ādat), from Arabic عَادَة (ʕāda, “habit, custom”), from the verb عَوْدَ (ʕawda, “to appertain, to be proper”).
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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