adolescente
[að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“adolescente” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,297 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,297
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez.
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 | adolescente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adolescente” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adolescente is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,297 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for adolescente, with forms such as "addolescente", "adloescente", and "adoelscente". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "adolescentes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is adolescente, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Que se encuentra en la etapa de rápido crecimiento posterior a la pubertad y anterior a la madurez.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addolescente,adloescente,adoelscente,adolecsente,adolesccente,adolescenet,adolescennte,adolescentte,adolescetne,adolescnete,adolesecnte,adolesscente,adolessente,adollescente,adolsecente,aodlescente,daolescente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adolescente - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “adolescente”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞oleˈsẽn̪t̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “adolescentes” - see the side-by-side comparison. adolescente vs adolescentes
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.