admonition
/ˌædməˈnɪʃən/
"admonition" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“admonition” is an uncommon English word, ranked #52,130 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,130
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in one's actions.
| 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) |
Where “admonition” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for admonition is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌædməˈnɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #52,130 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “admonition”
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- The one correct English spelling is A-D-M-O-N-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.