adjacency
/əˈdʒeɪsənsi/
"adjacency" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adjacency” is uncommon English (frequency #70,437 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,437
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adjacency · adjacency · English
adjacency · rank #70,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,437
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Achebe
Nearest frequency peer: Achebe (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “adjacency”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acetylation
acetylation
29,566 corpus weight
- Achebe
Achebe
29,565 corpus weight
- adjacency
adjacency
29,564 corpus weight
- Adonai
Adonai
29,563 corpus weight
- agressive
agressive
29,561 corpus weight
- Allu
Allu
29,556 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adjacency” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adjacency |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈdʒeɪsənsi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adjacency” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adjacency is uncommon English at frequency #70,437 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈdʒeɪsənsi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for adjacency, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is adjacency, spelled A-D-J-A-C-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
- 2The programming directly before or after a commercial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adjacency appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
at that point the Needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of Adjacencies.
“With the adjacencies for victims whose families wish them to be listed together,[…], this is an approach that I hope will be acceptable to the great majority of the families affected,” he said afterward.
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); 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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