Adolphus
"adolphus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adolphus” is uncommon English (frequency #52,131 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,131
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized variant of Adolph.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adolphus · Adolphus · English
Adolphus · rank #52,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,131
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH admonition
Nearest frequency peer: admonition (-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 “Adolphus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- acquaint
acquaint
47,873 corpus weight
- admonition
admonition
47,871 corpus weight
- Adolphus
Adolphus
47,870 corpus weight
- Ainslie
Ainslie
47,869 corpus weight
- Akers
Akers
47,868 corpus weight
- alanine
alanine
47,867 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Adolphus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adolphus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Adolphus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Adolphus is uncommon English at frequency #52,131 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized variant of Adolph.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Adolphus, 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Adolphus. Doublet of Adolph. The correct English form is Adolphus, spelled A-D-O-L-P-H-U-S.
Definition
- 1A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized variant of Adolph.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adolphus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Would any man named Adolphus - any man called Dolly! - object to being called something else?
Sometimes as a child I used to wonder why my brother was called after the man whose very name we were later taught to fear. But then who knows what goes on inside the minds of ambitious, proud Ibo fathers? As most Ibo boys born around that time were called Adolphus after the German leader, Adol is still a fairly common name among the Ibos of Nigeria.
Etymology
From Latin Adolphus. Doublet of Adolph.
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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