adieu
/a.djø/
The verdict
“adieu” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,440 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,440
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adiós.
Corpus desk
Index ES-adieu · adieu · Spanish
adieu · rank #87,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,440
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH adjudicando
Nearest frequency peer: adjudicando (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “adieu”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- acts
acts
12,564 corpus weight
- adaptativas
adaptativas
12,563 corpus weight
- adieu
adieu
12,561 corpus weight
- adjudicando
adjudicando
12,560 corpus weight
- adjudicatar…
adjudicatarios
12,559 corpus weight
- adoquín
adoquín
12,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “adieu” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adieu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /a.djø/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “adieu” en español
Rare enough to double-check
adieu is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,440 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /a.djø/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adiós.".
No misspelling variants are generated for adieu in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is adieu, spelled A-D-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Adiós.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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