Adonis
/əˈdəʊ.nɪs/
"adonis" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Adonis” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,667
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adonis · Adonis · English
Adonis · rank #32,667 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,667
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aggrieved
Nearest frequency peer: aggrieved (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Adonis”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- zooming
zooming
67,338 corpus weight
- abram
abram
67,336 corpus weight
- Adonis
Adonis
67,334 corpus weight
- aggrieved
aggrieved
67,333 corpus weight
- albatross
albatross
67,332 corpus weight
- Alina
Alina
67,331 corpus weight
What this shows “Adonis” 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 | Adonis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈdəʊ.nɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Adonis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Adonis (IPA /əˈdəʊ.nɪs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,667 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Adonis, with forms such as "addonis", "adnois", and "adoins". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "agonist", "Addis", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis). The correct English form is Adonis, spelled A-D-O-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
- 2A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- 3A surname.
- 4An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
- 5An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adonis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.
1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun, A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions o…
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addonis
- adnois
- adoins
- adoniss
- adonnis
- adonsi
- aodnis
- daonis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Adonis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).