Adeline
/ˈædəlɪn/
"adeline" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adeline” is an uncommon English word, ranked #50,339 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #50,339
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from the Germanic languages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adeline |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈædəlɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Adeline” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Adeline is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈædəlɪn/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,339 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.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Adeline in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French Adeline, a diminutive form of Adela and Adele brought to England by the Normans. The correct English form is Adeline, spelled A-D-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Etymology
From Old French Adeline, a diminutive form of Adela and Adele brought to England by the Normans.
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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Using “Adeline”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-D-E-L-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈædəlɪn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.