afable
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,033
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
afable is anSpanishadj. It means: Dicho de una persona, de trato cordial y agradable. Pronounced [aˈfaβ̞le]. Often confused with árabe and amable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afable |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [aˈfaβ̞le] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for afable is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈfaβ̞le]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,033 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for afable, with forms such as "aafble", "afabble", and "afabel". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "árabe", "amable", "amables", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is afable, spelled A-F-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una persona, de trato cordial y agradable.
- 2Propio de una persona afable₁.
- 3Que se puede decir o expresar con palabras.
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Also misspelled as: aafble,afabble,afabel,afablle,afalbe,afavle,afbale,affable,faable
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Misspelling Variants of "afable"
Frequency rank: #39,033 in Spanish
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