adulteress
"adulteress" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adulteress” is uncommon English (frequency #90,117 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,117
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adulteress · adulteress · English
adulteress · rank #90,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,117
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adjudicators
Nearest frequency peer: adjudicators (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “adulteress”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Adar
Adar
9,888 corpus weight
- Adebayo
Adebayo
9,887 corpus weight
- adjudicators
adjudicators
9,886 corpus weight
- adulteress
adulteress
9,884 corpus weight
- Akbari
Akbari
9,882 corpus weight
- Alabang
Alabang
9,880 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adulteress” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulteress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adulteress” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adulteress is uncommon English at frequency #90,117 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.".
Zero misspellings are on record for adulteress in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From adulter (noun) + -ess. In later use typically apprehended as the female equivalent corresponding to adulterer instead. The correct English form is adulteress, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adulteress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.
Etymology
From adulter (noun) + -ess. In later use typically apprehended as the female equivalent corresponding to adulterer instead.
Synonyms
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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