adulty

adj

"adulty" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“adulty” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling or characteristic of an adult.

Corpus desk

Index EN-adulty · adulty · English

adulty · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for adulty
PropertyValue
Headwordadulty
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “adulty” in English

adultyfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adulty is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Resembling or characteristic of an adult.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for adulty in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From adult + -y. The correct English form is adulty, spelled A-D-U-L-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of an adult.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how adulty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. And because I knew I was supposed to talk to him like he was an adult, I filtered everything I said and made sure it sounded adulty before it left my mouth.
  2. Part of me wanted to help Misa, but a bigger, uglier part of me was jealous that she had graduated on to adultier problems than surviving herself, at least on the surface.

Etymology

From adult + -y.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adulty"?
"adulty" is spelled A-D-U-L-T-Y.
What does "adulty" mean?
As an adjective, "adulty" means: Resembling or characteristic of an adult.
What is the origin of the word "adulty"?
From adult + -y. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list