adulterous
/əˈdʌltəɹəs/
"adulterous" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adulterous” is uncommon English (frequency #50,341 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,341
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, or characterized by adultery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adulterous · adulterous · English
adulterous · rank #50,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,341
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aerodrome
Nearest frequency peer: aerodrome (+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 “adulterous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abut
abut
49,664 corpus weight
- Adeline
Adeline
49,662 corpus weight
- adulterous
adulterous
49,660 corpus weight
- aerodrome
aerodrome
49,659 corpus weight
- aftercare
aftercare
49,658 corpus weight
- Agni
Agni
49,657 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adulterous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulterous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈdʌltəɹəs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adulterous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adulterous is uncommon English at frequency #50,341 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əˈdʌltəɹəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, or characterized by adultery.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adulterous, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is adulterous, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Of, or characterized by adultery.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adulterous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
adulterous behaviour
adulterous man
Antonyms
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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