Adidas
/ˈædiˌdæs/
"adidas" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adidas” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,453
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A clothing product made by Adidas, especially a pair of shoes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adidas · Adidas · English
Adidas · rank #13,453 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,453
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adhere
Nearest frequency peer: adhere (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Adidas”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- 2A
2A
86,551 corpus weight
- accents
accents
86,550 corpus weight
- adhere
adhere
86,549 corpus weight
- Adidas
Adidas
86,548 corpus weight
- advising
advising
86,547 corpus weight
- affirmative
affirmative
86,546 corpus weight
What this shows “Adidas” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Adidas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈædiˌdæs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Adidas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Adidas (IPA /ˈædiˌdæs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,453 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A clothing product made by Adidas, especially a pair of shoes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Adidas, with forms such as "addias", "addidas", and "adiads". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "AIDS", "aida", "alias", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the German company name Adidas, after its founder, Adolf “Adi” Dassler. The correct English form is Adidas, spelled A-D-I-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1A clothing product made by Adidas, especially a pair of shoes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adidas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My Adidas and me close as can be / We make a mean team, my Adidas and me / We get around together, we're down forever
[…]I walked through the door and Jeremy had hung himself from the rafters. A stepladder was kicked over and his Adidas dangled right above my eye level.
Etymology
From the German company name Adidas, after its founder, Adolf “Adi” Dassler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addias
- addidas
- adiads
- adidass
- adiddas
- adidsa
- aiddas
- daidas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Adidas - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Adidas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).