adobe
/əˈdoʊ.bi/noun
adobe is spelled A-D-O-B-E: 5 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, adobe means “An unburnt brick dried in the sun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of adobe is adobes.
How many letters and syllables are in adobe?
| Letters | 5: A-D-O-B-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.4 times per million words; the 14,307th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is adobe?
Adobe appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th 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 adobe?
- UK /əˈdəʊ.bi/
- US /əˈdoʊ.bi/
Adobe has 3 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-us-adobe.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with adobe?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as adobe from its last stressed vowel (/oʊbi/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: abode.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of adobe
- adobes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adobe mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
- 2
The earth from which such bricks are made.
- 3
A house made of adobe brick.
noun
- 1
informalAny file, document or program that is associated with Adobe Inc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate adobe?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of adobe: dobe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adobe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adobe , argile , maison en adobes |
| German | Adobe, Lehmziegel |
| Portuguese | adobe |
| Spanish | adobe , casa de adobe |
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 adobe come from?
From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).