adductor
/əˈdʌktɚ/
"adductor" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adductor” is uncommon English (frequency #66,440 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,440
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body—opposed to abductor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adductor · adductor · English
adductor · rank #66,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,440
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH accompanist
Nearest frequency peer: accompanist (-2 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 “adductor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aboveground
aboveground
33,566 corpus weight
- abuzz
abuzz
33,564 corpus weight
- accompanist
accompanist
33,563 corpus weight
- adductor
adductor
33,561 corpus weight
- AEA
AEA
33,559 corpus weight
- Aeroflot
Aeroflot
33,557 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adductor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adductor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈdʌktɚ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adductor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adductor is uncommon English at frequency #66,440 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈdʌktɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body—opposed to abductor.".
Zero misspellings are on record for adductor in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or. The correct English form is adductor, spelled A-D-D-U-C-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body—opposed to abductor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adductor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The adductor of the eye turns the eye toward the nose.
He has also shown that the adductor muscles of the dactyl are very strong and so arranged as to produce the effect , while the opposing muscles are slender
Etymology
From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.
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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