adorable
/əˈdɔːɹəbəl/
"adorable" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adorable” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,433
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adorable · adorable · English
adorable · rank #6,433 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,433
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH addressing
Nearest frequency peer: addressing (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “adorable”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- accommodati…
accommodation
93,571 corpus weight
- achievements
achievements
93,570 corpus weight
- addressing
addressing
93,569 corpus weight
- adorable
adorable
93,568 corpus weight
- allegedly
allegedly
93,567 corpus weight
- ambulance
ambulance
93,566 corpus weight
What this shows “adorable” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adorable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “adorable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around adorable (IPA /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,433 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for adorable, with forms such as "addorable", "adoarble", and "adorabble". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "arable", "admirable", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French adorable and its etymon Latin adorābilis, from adōrāre, from ad + ōrō + ōrāre. By surface analysis, adore + -able. The correct English form is adorable, spelled A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adorable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French adorable and its etymon Latin adorābilis, from adōrāre, from ad + ōrō + ōrāre. By surface analysis, adore + -able.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addorable
- adoarble
- adorabble
- adorabel
- adorablle
- adoralbe
- adorbale
- adorible
- adorrable
- adroable
- aodrable
- daorable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adorable - 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.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adorable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).