suitable

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The English entry for suitable is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsjuː.tə.bɫ̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,790 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for suitable, with forms such as "siutable", "ssuitable", and "suiatble". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "suitably", "stable", "sizable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From suit + -able. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is suitable, spelled S-U-I-T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.