Adonai
/əˈdəʊ.nʌɪ/
"adonai" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adonai” is uncommon English (frequency #70,438 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,438
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Lord: a Hebrew title of God.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adonai · Adonai · English
Adonai · rank #70,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,438
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adjacency
Nearest frequency peer: adjacency (-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 “Adonai”
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 “Adonai” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adonai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈdəʊ.nʌɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Adonai” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Adonai is uncommon English at frequency #70,438 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /əˈdəʊ.nʌɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Lord: a Hebrew title of God.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Adonai, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾădônāy, “My Lord”); used in place of the Tetragrammaton YHWH as a name of the deity of Abrahamic religion during prayer recitation. The correct English form is Adonai, spelled A-D-O-N-A-I.
Definition
- 1The Lord: a Hebrew title of God.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Adonai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This not the last empire to crumble / I bore witness to rise and fall of tribes of Adonai / And I have fallen short of a glory of God
Etymology
From Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾădônāy, “My Lord”); used in place of the Tetragrammaton YHWH as a name of the deity of Abrahamic religion during prayer recitation.
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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