adjudicate
/əˈd͡ʒu.dɪˌkeɪt/verb
adjudicate is spelled A-D-J-U-D-I-C-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is ajudicate: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Adjudicate is a verb meaning “To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge”.
How many letters and syllables are in adjudicate?
| Letters | 10: A-D-J-U-D-I-C-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ajudicate, about 130 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell adjudicate?
Adjudicate is spelled A-D-J-U-D-I-C-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for adjudicate in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is adjudicate?
Adjudicate appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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).
How do you pronounce adjudicate?
- UK /əˈd͡ʒuː.dɪ.keɪt/
- US /əˈd͡ʒu.dɪˌkeɪt/
- Australia /əˈd͡ʒʉː.dɪ.kæɪt/
Adjudicate has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-adjudicate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adjudicate
- adjudicates present, singular, he/she/it
- adjudicating participle, present
- adjudicated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adjudicate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.
- 2
To act as a judge.
- 3
To seize or convey as security.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adjudicate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to settle a legal case or other dispute:
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 adjudicate come from?
Borrowed from Latin adiūdicō, adiūdicātus, from ad + iūdicō (“to judge”). Doublet of adjudge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).