adventurous
/ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/adjective
adventurous is spelled A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is adventerous: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Adventurous is an adjective meaning “Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring”.
How many letters and syllables are in adventurous?
| Letters | 11: A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, adventerous, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell adventurous?
Adventurous is spelled A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for adventurous in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is adventurous?
Adventurous appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce adventurous?
- US /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/
Adventurous has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-adventurous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adventurous
- more adventurous comparative
- most adventurous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adventurous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
- 2
Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
take an adventurous viewpoint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adventurous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aventureux , hasardeux |
| German | abenteuerlustig, abenteuerdurstig, abenteuerhungrig, abenteuersüchtig , abenteuerlich |
| Portuguese | aventureiro, aventuroso , arriscado, perigoso |
| Spanish | intrépido, aventurero , aventurado, arriesgado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adventurous come from?
From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). By surface analysis, adventure + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).