Adolph
\a.dɔlf\
The verdict
“Adolph” is uncommon French (frequency #91,346 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,346
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adolph · Adolph · French
Adolph · rank #91,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,346
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adoptants
Nearest frequency peer: adoptants (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Adolph »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acryliques
acryliques
8,659 corpus weight
- activait
activait
8,658 corpus weight
- Adolph
Adolph
8,655 corpus weight
- adoptants
adoptants
8,654 corpus weight
- adoreront
adoreront
8,653 corpus weight
- adventice
adventice
8,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Adolph » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adolph |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.dɔlf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Adolph » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Adolph is uncommon French at frequency #91,346 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.dɔlf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Adolph in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Adolph, spelled A-D-O-L-P-H.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Adolph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si ma vie à Isleta fut jalonnée de rencontres, toutes plus improbables les unes que les autres, l’une des plus enrichissantes - avec celle de Chas - restera ma rencontre avec mon vieil ami, l’archéologue et historien Adolph Bandelier.
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.
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