enabled
/ɛˈneɪbl̩d/
"enabled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“enabled” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,960. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,960
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Being capable for use or action; not disabled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-enabled · enabled · English
enabled · rank #5,960 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,960
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH editorial
Nearest frequency peer: editorial (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “enabled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- divisions
divisions
94,044 corpus weight
- drum
drum
94,043 corpus weight
- editorial
editorial
94,042 corpus weight
- enabled
enabled
94,041 corpus weight
- entertaining
entertaining
94,040 corpus weight
- est
est
94,039 corpus weight
What this shows “enabled” 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 | enabled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛˈneɪbl̩d/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “enabled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around enabled (IPA /ɛˈneɪbl̩d/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,960 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for enabled, with forms such as "eanbled", "enabbled", and "enabeld". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "enabler", "entailed", "enable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is enabled, spelled E-N-A-B-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Being capable for use or action; not disabled.
- 2Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enabled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Because of social media and the unprecedented access to information, ordinary people are more enabled than ever before. We call them WE Generation—spanning all age demographics and professions, these are the people connected by the desire to make a difference—rather than birth order.
And as Anthony Rode has articulated [...] "Molly Sweeny [...] is no longer the most disabled but the most enabled of the three characters, positioned to relate directly to the audience and bring them to participate in the world she inhabits."
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eanbled
- enabbled
- enabeld
- enablde
- enabledd
- enablled
- enalbed
- enbaled
- ennabled
- neabled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enabled - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).