honourable
"honourable" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“honourable” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,722
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Standard spelling of honorable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-honourable · honourable · English
honourable · rank #11,722 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,722
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH holt
Nearest frequency peer: holt (-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 “honourable”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- heh
heh
88,282 corpus weight
- highlighting
highlighting
88,281 corpus weight
- holt
holt
88,280 corpus weight
- honourable
honourable
88,279 corpus weight
- illnesses
illnesses
88,278 corpus weight
- imminent
imminent
88,277 corpus weight
What this shows “honourable” 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 | honourable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “honourable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around honourable, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,722 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Standard spelling of honorable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for honourable, with forms such as "hhonourable", "hnoourable", and "honnourable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "honorable", "honorably", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honour + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst. The correct English form is honourable, spelled H-O-N-O-U-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Standard spelling of honorable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how honourable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
The days of steam on the railways of Kent are now indeed numbered, and when stage two of the electrification is completed through Tonbridge to Ashford, Folkestone and Dover a long and honourable chapter in transport will be virtually closed.
Etymology
From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honour + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhonourable
- hnoourable
- honnourable
- honoruable
- honouarble
- honourabble
- honourabel
- honourablle
- honouralbe
- honourbale
- honourible
- honourrable
- honuorable
- hoonurable
- ohnourable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of honourable - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).