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adelita

noun

adelita is spelled A-D-E-L-I-T-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, adelita means “A female soldier during the Mexican revolution” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of adelita is adelitas.

How many letters and syllables are in adelita?

Letters7: A-D-E-L-I-T-A
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th 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 adelita?

Adelita appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 adelita

  • adelitas plural

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

What does adelita mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A female soldier during the Mexican revolution

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

Adelita in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense female soldier during the Mexican revolution:

LanguageWords
Spanishadelita

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does adelita come from?

From Spanish adelita.

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

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