admonition
/ˌædməˈnɪʃən/
"admonition" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“admonition” is uncommon English (frequency #52,130 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,130
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in one's actions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-admonition · admonition · English
admonition · rank #52,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,130
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Adolphus
Nearest frequency peer: Adolphus (+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 “admonition”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- accusative
accusative
47,874 corpus weight
- acquaint
acquaint
47,873 corpus weight
- admonition
admonition
47,871 corpus weight
- Adolphus
Adolphus
47,870 corpus weight
- Ainslie
Ainslie
47,869 corpus weight
- Akers
Akers
47,868 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “admonition” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admonition |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌædməˈnɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “admonition” in English
Rare enough to double-check
admonition is uncommon English at frequency #52,130 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌædməˈnɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in one's actions.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for admonition, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonicion, from Latin admonitio, stem of admonere. The -d- was restored in English in the 17th century. The correct English form is admonition, spelled A-D-M-O-N-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in one's actions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how admonition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But modesty cannot be implanted by admonition only—the elders must set the example.
Etymology
From Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonicion, from Latin admonitio, stem of admonere. The -d- was restored in English in the 17th century.
This word in other languages
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.
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