adorbs
/əˈdɔɹbz/adjective
adorbs is spelled A-D-O-R-B-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, adorbs means “Adorable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in adorbs?
| Letters | 6: A-D-O-R-B-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 111,684th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is adorbs?
Adorbs appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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 adorbs?
- US /əˈdɔɹbz/
Adorbs has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-adorbs.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with adorbs?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as adorbs (/ɔɹbz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: boards, adsorb.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of adorbs
- more adorbs comparative
- most adorbs superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adorbs mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
colloquialAdorable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does adorbs come from?
Clipping of adorable + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).