greater adjutant
"greater-adjutant" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“greater adjutant” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A bird (Leptoptilos dubius) of the stork family native to India and Southeast Asia
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | greater adjutant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “greater adjutant” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
greater adjutant is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bird (Leptoptilos dubius) of the stork family native to India and Southeast Asia".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for greater adjutant, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: A clarifying form of its earlier name adjutant The correct English form is greater adjutant, spelled G-R-E-A-T-E-R- -A-D-J-U-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1A bird (Leptoptilos dubius) of the stork family native to India and Southeast Asia
Etymology
A clarifying form of its earlier name adjutant
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “greater adjutant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-E-A-T-E-R- -A-D-J-U-T-A-N-T - 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.