adobe
/əˈdəʊ.bi/
"adobe" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adobe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,259
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adobe · adobe · English
adobe · rank #14,259 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,259
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ala
Nearest frequency peer: ala (+2 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 “adobe”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- yummy
yummy
85,746 corpus weight
- Zeus
Zeus
85,745 corpus weight
- adobe
adobe
85,742 corpus weight
- ala
ala
85,740 corpus weight
- alarming
alarming
85,739 corpus weight
- Alexandra
Alexandra
85,738 corpus weight
What this shows “adobe” 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 | adobe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈdəʊ.bi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “adobe”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around adobe (IPA /əˈdəʊ.bi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,259 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for adobe, with forms such as "adboe", "addobe", and "adobbe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "aloe", "alone", "adopt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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”). The correct English form is adobe, spelled A-D-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
- 2The earth from which such bricks are made.
- 3A house made of adobe brick.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adobe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
“Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
Etymology
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”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adboe
- addobe
- adobbe
- adoeb
- aodbe
- daobe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adobe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).