Adige
/ˈadɪdʒeɪ/
"adige" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adige” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A river in South Tyrol, Italy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adige |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈadɪdʒeɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Adige” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Adige is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈadɪdʒeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A river in South Tyrol, Italy.".
Adige doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Adige, from Latin Athesis. The correct English form is Adige, spelled A-D-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1A river in South Tyrol, Italy.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Adige, from Latin Athesis.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Adige”
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- The one correct English spelling is A-D-I-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈadɪdʒeɪ/ (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.