admonishment

noun

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"admonishment" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“admonishment” is uncommon English (frequency #93,375 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,375
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of admonishing.

Corpus desk

Index EN-admonishment · admonishment · English

admonishment · rank #93,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,375
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH AGIs

Nearest frequency peer: AGIs (+1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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.

Long-tail ranks near “admonishment”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “admonishment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for admonishment
PropertyValue
Headwordadmonishment
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Frequency rank#93,375
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “admonishment” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).admonishmentfalls in this rarity band:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “AGIs” (#93,376), “adiós” (#93,373), “acupuncturist” (#93,372). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “admonishment” is #93,375. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

admonishment is uncommon English at frequency #93,375 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of admonishing.".

admonishment has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From admonish + -ment. The correct English form is admonishment, spelled A-D-M-O-N-I-S-H-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    The act of admonishing.

Etymology

From admonish + -ment.

This word in other languages

Rüge(Deutsch)admoestação(Português)

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "admonishment"?
"admonishment" is spelled A-D-M-O-N-I-S-H-M-E-N-T.
What does "admonishment" mean?
As a noun, "admonishment" means: The act of admonishing.
What is the origin of the word "admonishment"?
From admonish + -ment. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Yorkshireman#93,347bactericidal#93,423unfulfilling#93,280transvaginal#93,253

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list