note of admiration

noun

"note-of-admiration" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“note of admiration” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
18
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An exclamation mark.

Corpus desk

Index EN-note-of-admiration · note of admiration · English

note of admiration · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 18 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "N" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for note of admiration
PropertyValue
Headwordnote of admiration
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “note of admiration” in English

note of admirationsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

note of admiration is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An exclamation mark.".

No misspelling variants are generated for note of admiration in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is note of admiration, spelled N-O-T-E- -O-F- -A-D-M-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    An exclamation mark.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how note of admiration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The squire, perhaps, did not understand this good advice, as it was delivered in obscure hints, shrugs, and notes of admiration […]
  2. A note of admiration is placed after an interjection, and such words as express wonder, as Alas! O times! O manners!

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "note of admiration"?
"note of admiration" is spelled N-O-T-E- -O-F- -A-D-M-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
What does "note of admiration" mean?
As a noun, "note of admiration" means: An exclamation mark.
What language does "note of admiration" come from?
"note of admiration" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list