adulthood
"adulthood" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adulthood” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #12,900 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,900
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulthood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adulthood” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for adulthood is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #12,900 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for adulthood, with forms such as "addulthood", "adluthood", and "adulhtood". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From adult + -hood. The correct English form is adulthood, spelled A-D-U-L-T-H-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
- 2The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.
Etymology
From adult + -hood.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addulthood,adluthood,adulhtood,adullthood,adulthhood,adulthod,adulthodo,adulthoodd,adultohod,adultthood,adutlhood,audlthood,daulthood
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adulthood - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “adulthood”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-D-U-L-T-H-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.