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Adelie

noun

Adelie is spelled A-D-E-L-I-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Adelie means “An Adelie penguin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Adelie is Adélies or Adelies.

How many letters and syllables are in Adelie?

Letters6: A-D-E-L-I-E
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Adelie?

Adelie appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of Adelie

  • Adélies plural
  • Adelies plural
  • Adélie

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Adelie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An Adelie penguin.

noun

as Adélie
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Adelie (“Adelie penguin”).

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:Adélie.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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