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fabulous

/ˈfæbjʊləs/adjective

fabulous is spelled F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is fabolous: about 1,100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Fabulous is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to fable, myth or legend”.

How many letters and syllables are in fabulous?

Letters8: F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, fabolous, about 1,100 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell fabulous?

Fabulous is spelled F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for fabulous in either form.

fabulousthe right spelling5,310 searches a month
fabolouso in place of u1,100 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is fabulous?

Fabulous appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce fabulous?

  • /ˈfæbjʊləs/

Fabulous has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-fabulous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fabulous

  • more fabulous comparative
  • most fabulous superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does fabulous mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to fable, myth or legend.

  2. 2

    Characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible.

  3. 3

    Fictional or not believable; made up.

  4. 4

    obsoleteKnown for telling fables or falsehoods; unreliable.

  5. 5

    slangVery good; outstanding, wonderful.

  6. 6

    slangCamp, effeminate.

  7. 7

    slangFashionable, glamorous.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate fabulous?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of fabulous: fabs.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Fabulous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanmythisch, unglaubhaft, nicht glaubwürdig (mythical or legendary; incredible), sagenhaft, sagenumwoben, unhistorisch (of the nature of a fable; unhistorical)
Portuguesefabuloso (mythical or legendary; incredible), fantástico, fabular (of the nature of a fable; unhistorical)
Spanishincreíble, fabuloso (mythical or legendary; incredible), fantástico (of the nature of a fable; unhistorical), extraordinario (extraordinary, especially in being very large)
Frenchfabuleux (of the nature of a fable; unhistorical)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does fabulous come from?

From Late Middle English fabulous, fabulose, from Latin fābulōsus (“celebrated in fable”); Equivalent to fable + -ous.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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