ardour
"ardour" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ardour” is uncommon English (frequency #70,463 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,463
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - British, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ardour · ardour · English
ardour · rank #70,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH arbour
Nearest frequency peer: arbour (-1 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.
Long-tail ranks near “ardour”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anis
Anis
29,545 corpus weight
- apoplectic
apoplectic
29,543 corpus weight
- arbour
arbour
29,539 corpus weight
- ardour
ardour
29,538 corpus weight
- ascribes
ascribes
29,537 corpus weight
- async
async
29,535 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ardour” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “ardour” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ardour is uncommon English at frequency #70,463 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ardour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.
The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).