adele

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The English entry for Adele is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈdɛl/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,947 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A female given name from the Germanic languages.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Adele, with forms such as "addele", "adeel", and "adelle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ale", "ADL", "axle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Adèle, equivalent of Adela, from a Germanic root meaning “noble”. Compare athel, German edel, Old English æþele. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Adele, spelled A-D-E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.