affable
/ˈæf.ə.bəl/
"affable" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“affable” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,495
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-affable · affable · English
affable · rank #43,495 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,495
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adjournment
Nearest frequency peer: adjournment (-2 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 “affable”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- abdicate
abdicate
56,510 corpus weight
- accosted
accosted
56,509 corpus weight
- adjournment
adjournment
56,508 corpus weight
- affable
affable
56,506 corpus weight
- airbrush
airbrush
56,503 corpus weight
- airsoft
airsoft
56,502 corpus weight
What this shows “affable” 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 | affable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈæf.ə.bəl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “affable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around affable (IPA /ˈæf.ə.bəl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,495 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for affable, with forms such as "afable", "afafble", and "affabble". 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", "amiable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from affor (“to address”), from ad + for (“to speak, to talk”). See fable. The correct English form is affable, spelled A-F-F-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
- 2Mild; benign.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.
[…] He stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backsof the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing trivia in the sky to the two men, who were too busy to be interested.
Etymology
Borrowed from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from affor (“to address”), from ad + for (“to speak, to talk”). See fable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afable
- afafble
- affabble
- affabel
- affablle
- affalbe
- affbale
- affible
- fafable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of affable - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).