adulty
"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
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adulty” in English
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
- 1Resembling or characteristic of an adult.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adulty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.