adat
"adat" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adat” is an uncommon English word, ranked #88,030 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #88,030
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Traditional custom or law, in Islamic parts of Southeast Asia.
| 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) |
Where “adat” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for adat is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #88,030 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “adat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-D-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.