likability
"likability" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“likability” is uncommon English (frequency #88,540 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,540
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of likeability.
Corpus desk
Index EN-likability · likability · English
likability · rank #88,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,540
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lish
Nearest frequency peer: lish (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “likability”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Leonore
Leonore
11,468 corpus weight
- librettist
librettist
11,465 corpus weight
- likability
likability
11,461 corpus weight
- lish
lish
11,459 corpus weight
- loanee
loanee
11,455 corpus weight
- lookit
lookit
11,452 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “likability” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | likability |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “likability” in English
Rare enough to double-check
likability is uncommon English at frequency #88,540 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of likeability.".
likability has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is likability, spelled L-I-K-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of likeability.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how likability appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Women who make executive decisions and tell people what to do (instead of asking them what they’d like to do) win points for being decisive but lose far more points for likability. The press (and plenty of others) call these women bossy, pushy, and opinionated, and the adjectives quickly get nastier from there.
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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