desirable

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The English entry for desirable is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,919 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for desirable, with forms such as "ddesirable", "deisrable", and "desiarble". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "despicable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French desirable. Morphologically desire + -able. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is desirable, spelled D-E-S-I-R-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.