adventures
/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃəz/
"adventures" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adventures” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,570
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of adventure
Corpus desk
Index EN-adventures · adventures · English
adventures · rank #5,570 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,570
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH admission
Nearest frequency peer: admission (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “adventures”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- yield
yield
94,434 corpus weight
- accomplished
accomplished
94,433 corpus weight
- admission
admission
94,432 corpus weight
- adventures
adventures
94,431 corpus weight
- AKA
AKA
94,430 corpus weight
- appearing
appearing
94,429 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “adventures” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | adventures |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃəz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adventures” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around adventures (IPA /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃəz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,570 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of adventure".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for adventures, with forms such as "addventures", "adevntures", and "advenntures". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "adventurous", "adventure", "adventurer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is adventures, spelled A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of adventure
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addventures
- adevntures
- advenntures
- adventrues
- adventtures
- adventuers
- adventuress
- adventurres
- adventurse
- advenutres
- advetnures
- advnetures
- advventures
- avdentures
- daventures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adventures - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adventures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "adventures" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "adventurous". View pair
- 15 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #5,570 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
- PlainSpell rotates a curated Word of the Day from the English corpus, a passive way to discover vocabulary. Word of the Day
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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.