coadjutor
/kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/
"coadjutor" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coadjutor” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,149 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,149
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An assistant or helper.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coadjutor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coadjutor” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for coadjutor is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,149 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for coadjutor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English coadjutowre, from Old French coadjuteur, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem, from co- + adiūtor (“helper”), from adiuvō (“to help”) + -tor (agent suffix). By surface analysis, co- + adjutor. The French derivation gave the accentuation … The correct English form is coadjutor, spelled C-O-A-D-J-U-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1An assistant or helper.
- 2An assistant to a bishop.
Etymology
From Middle English coadjutowre, from Old French coadjuteur, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem, from co- + adiūtor (“helper”), from adiuvō (“to help”) + -tor (agent suffix). By surface analysis, co- + adjutor. The French derivation gave the accentuation coˈadjutor (used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), but the poets generally, since 1600, appear to have coaˈdjutor, after Latin. No Latin *coadiuvō or *coadiūtō is recorded, but in the modern languages words have been formed on these types, suggested by coadjutor.
This word in other languages
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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- The one correct English spelling is C-O-A-D-J-U-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.