ardour
"ardour" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ardour” is an uncommon English word, ranked #70,463 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #70,463
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - British, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ardour |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ardour” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for ardour is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #70,463 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "British, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ardour, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is ardour, spelled A-R-D-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1British, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
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 “ardour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-R-D-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.