# honourable

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #11,722

## Definitions
1. Standard spelling of honorable.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **honorable** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/honorable-vs-honourable)
- **honorably** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/honorably-vs-honourable)

## Common misspellings (15)
`hhonourable`, `hnoourable`, `honnourable`, `honoruable`, `honouarble`, `honourabble`, `honourabel`, `honourablle`, `honouralbe`, `honourbale`, `honourible`, `honourrable`, `honuorable`, `hoonurable`, `ohnourable`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/honourable