Adélaïde

\a.de.la.id\

/\a.de.la.id\/ name

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The verdict

“Adélaïde” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,817
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adelaide · Adélaïde · French

Adélaïde · rank #28,817 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #28,817
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adoptif

Nearest frequency peer: adoptif (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Adélaïde »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Adélaïde » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Adélaïde vs Adeline
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Adélaïde
PropertyValue
HeadwordAdélaïde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.de.la.id\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,817
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Adélaïde »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Adélaïdese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adoptif » (#28,816), « Agadir » (#28,818), « additionnelles » (#28,815). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Adélaïde » est au #28,817. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Adélaïde (IPA \a.de.la.id\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,817 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Adélaïde, with forms such as "addélaïde", "adelaïde", and "adléaïde". 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, "Adeline", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Adélaïde, spelled A-D-É-L-A-Ï-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Adélaïde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Silvère grandit dans un continuel tête-à-tête avec Adélaïde. Par une cajolerie d’enfant, il l’appelait tante Dide, nom qui finit par rester à la vieille femme ; le nom de tante, ainsi employé, est, en Provence, une simple caresse.
  2. Sn mari, toujours souriant, répondit: « C'est vous qui l'avez voulu, madame Adelaïde. »

This word in other languages

Adelaide(English)Adelaida(Español)Adelheid(Deutsch)Adelaide(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addélaïde
  • adelaïde
  • adléaïde
  • adéalïde
  • adéladïe
  • adélaïdde
  • adélaïed
  • adéllaïde
  • adélïade
  • aédlaïde
  • daélaïde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Adélaïde - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

addélaïde1adelaïde1adléaïde2adéalïde2adéladïe2adélaïdde1adélaïed2adéllaïde1
Edit distance from "Adélaïde"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Adélaïde"?
"Adélaïde" is spelled A-D-É-L-A-Ï-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.de.la.id\.
What does "Adélaïde" mean?
As a proper noun, "Adélaïde" means: Prénom féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Adélaïde"?
"Adélaïde" is commonly confused with "Adeline". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Adélaïde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Adélaïde" is \a.de.la.id\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Adélaïde" come from?
"Adélaïde" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Adélaïde", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

accèdent#28,812amplifie#28,826anéantie#28,829épingles#28,805

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

émouvoir11 variantsatteignit11 variantsveuillent11 variantsVerneuil11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list