honorable
hon·or·able/ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/adjective, noun
honorable is spelled H-O-N-O-R-A-B-L-E, 3 syllables: hon·or·able. The wrong spelling people search most is honerable: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Honorable is an adjective meaning “Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity”.
How many letters and syllables are in honorable?
| Letters | 9: H-O-N-O-R-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: hon·or·able |
| In writing | 6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, honerable, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 honorable?
Honorable is spelled H-O-N-O-R-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for honorable in either form.
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 honorable?
Honorable appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 honorable?
- UK /ˈɒn.ə ɹəbl̩/
- UK /ˈɒn.ɹəbl̩/
- US /ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/
Honorable has 3 syllables, split hon·or·able in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-honorable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of honorable
- more honorable comparative
- most honorable superlative
- honble
- honourable
- honorables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does honorable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
USBehaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
- 2
USWorthy of respect; respectable.
- 3
USComplying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
- 4
USA courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
- 5
USA courtesy title, given in the United Kingdom to all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and to the younger sons of earls.
noun
- 1
USA politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".
adjective
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of honorable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate honorable?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of honorable: Hon., hon'ble, honble.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Honorable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense worthy of respect:
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 honorable come from?
From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).