admirable
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,078
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
admirable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui mérite ou qui attire l’admiration. Pronounced \ad.mi.ʁabl\. Often confused with amiable and Admiral.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admirable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ad.mi.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for admirable is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ad.mi.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,078 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for admirable, with forms such as "addmirable", "adimrable", and "admiarble". 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, "amiable", "Admiral", "adorable", 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 French form is admirable, spelled A-D-M-I-R-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui mérite ou qui attire l’admiration.
- 2Sert à marquer qu’on est surpris ou choqué de ce que quelqu’un dit ou fait.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addmirable,adimrable,admiarble,admirabble,admirabel,admirablle,admiralbe,admirbale,admirrable,admmirable,admriable,amdirable,damirable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for admirable
Misspelling Variants of "admirable"
Frequency rank: #15,078 in French
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