adept
/əˈdɛpt/
"adept" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adept” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,747
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
Corpus desk
Index EN-adept · adept · English
adept · rank #18,747 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,747
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH additive
Nearest frequency peer: additive (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “adept”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- achieves
achieves
81,256 corpus weight
- additive
additive
81,255 corpus weight
- adept
adept
81,254 corpus weight
- advantageous
advantageous
81,253 corpus weight
- afloat
afloat
81,251 corpus weight
- agility
agility
81,250 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “adept” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adept |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈdɛpt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adept” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around adept (IPA /əˈdɛpt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,747 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for adept, with forms such as "addept", "adeppt", and "adeptt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "apt", "ADP", "appt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”). The correct English form is adept, spelled A-D-E-P-T.
Definition
- 1Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adept appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Etymology
Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addept
- adeppt
- adeptt
- adetp
- adpet
- aedpt
- daept
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adept - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "adept" maps to 18 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "apt". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,747 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.