Adcock
"adcock" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adcock” is uncommon English (frequency #53,984 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,984
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname transferred from the given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adcock · Adcock · English
Adcock · rank #53,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,984
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acyl
Nearest frequency peer: acyl (-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 “Adcock”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acker
acker
46,020 corpus weight
- acquiesce
acquiesce
46,019 corpus weight
- acyl
acyl
46,018 corpus weight
- Adcock
Adcock
46,017 corpus weight
- Aditi
Aditi
46,016 corpus weight
- afghani
afghani
46,015 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Adcock” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adcock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Adcock” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Adcock is uncommon English at frequency #53,984 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname transferred from the given name.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Adcock, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a diminutive of Adam + cock as a medieval masculine diminutive suffix. The correct English form is Adcock, spelled A-D-C-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
From a diminutive of Adam + cock as a medieval masculine diminutive suffix.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).