adult education
"adult-education" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adult education” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities, either as a form of remedial education or as a form of continuing education or further education.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adult education |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adult education” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
adult education is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities, either as a form of remedial education or as a form of continuing education or further education.".
adult education doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is adult education, spelled A-D-U-L-T- -E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities, either as a form of remedial education or as a form of continuing education or further education.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “adult education”
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- The one correct English spelling is A-D-U-L-T- -E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.