adorable
/əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/adjective
adorable is spelled A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is adoreable: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Adorable is an adjective meaning “Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable”.
How many letters and syllables are in adorable?
| Letters | 8: A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, adoreable, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell adorable?
Adorable is spelled A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for adorable in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is adorable?
Adorable appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce adorable?
- UK /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/
- US /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/
Adorable has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-adorable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adorable
- more adorable comparative
- most adorable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adorable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate adorable?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of adorable: adorb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adorable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense befitting of being adored:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adorable, mignon |
| German | süß, lieb, nett, bezaubernd, goldig, niedlich |
| Portuguese | adorável |
| Spanish | adorable, encantador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adorable come from?
Borrowed from Middle French adorable and its etymon Latin adōrābilis, from adōrāre + -bilis, from ad + ōrō. By surface analysis, adore + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).