adventure
/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/
"adventure" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adventure” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #3,205 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,205
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adventure |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adventure” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for adventure is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,205 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 8 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 adventure, with forms such as "addventure", "adevnture", and "advennture". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "adventures", "adventurer", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Vulgar Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷənjō Vulgar Latin veniō Vulgar Latin adveniō Vulgar Latin advent… The correct English form is adventure, spelled A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- 2A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- 3A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.
- 4A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- 5A text adventure or an adventure game.
- 6That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- 7Chance of danger or loss.
- 8Risk; danger; peril.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Vulgar Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷənjō Vulgar Latin veniō Vulgar Latin adveniō Vulgar Latin adventūrus Vulgar Latin *adventūra Old French aventurebor. Middle English aventure English adventure From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). By surface analysis, advent + -ure. Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addventure,adevnture,advennture,adventrue,adventture,adventuer,adventurre,advenutre,advetnure,advneture,advventure,avdenture,daventure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adventure - 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 “adventure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “adventures” - see the side-by-side comparison. adventure vs adventures
- 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.