Arabella
/æɹəˈbɛlə/
"arabella" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Arabella” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #39,188 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #39,188
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Latin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arabella |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /æɹəˈbɛlə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Arabella” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Arabella is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /æɹəˈbɛlə/. Corpus data places it at rank #39,188 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A female given name from Latin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arabella, with forms such as "aarbella", "arabbella", and "arabela". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain, used in Scotland since the sixteenth century; possibly from Latin orabilis (“yielding to prayer”) or a variant of Annabel. The correct English form is Arabella, spelled A-R-A-B-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Latin.
Etymology
Uncertain, used in Scotland since the sixteenth century; possibly from Latin orabilis (“yielding to prayer”) or a variant of Annabel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aarbella,arabbella,arabela,arabelal,arablela,araeblla,arbaella,arrabella,raabella
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arabella - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Arabella”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-R-A-B-E-L-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /æɹəˈbɛlə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.