adducts
"adducts" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adducts” is uncommon English (frequency #82,024 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,024
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of adduct
Corpus desk
Index EN-adducts · adducts · English
adducts · rank #82,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,024
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH agon
Nearest frequency peer: agon (+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 “adducts”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- academe
academe
17,982 corpus weight
- accelerant
accelerant
17,981 corpus weight
- accredit
accredit
17,980 corpus weight
- adducts
adducts
17,977 corpus weight
- agon
agon
17,975 corpus weight
- agronomic
agronomic
17,973 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adducts” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adducts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adducts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adducts is uncommon English at frequency #82,024 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of adduct".
No misspelling variants are generated for adducts in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is adducts, spelled A-D-D-U-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of adduct
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adducts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich A complex mixture of adducts arose from the reaction of isobenzofuran 67 with Smith’s diene (4) as addition occurred nonstereospecifically at both π-centers of 4.
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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