admirable
\ad.mi.ʁabl\
The verdict
“admirable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,078
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui mérite ou qui attire l’admiration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-admirable · admirable · French
admirable · rank #15,078 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,078
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acquitter
Nearest frequency peer: acquitter (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « admirable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abolir
abolir
84,925 corpus weight
- acquitter
acquitter
84,924 corpus weight
- admirable
admirable
84,923 corpus weight
- adultère
adultère
84,922 corpus weight
- agroaliment…
agroalimentaire
84,921 corpus weight
- aidée
aidée
84,920 corpus weight
What this shows « admirable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admirable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.mi.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « admirable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around admirable (IPA \ad.mi.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,078 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for admirable, with forms such as "addmirable", "adimrable", and "admiarble". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "amiable", "Admiral", "adorable", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is admirable, spelled A-D-M-I-R-A-B-L-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how admirable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Voilà, dis-je, qui est admirable. — Admirable ! admirable ! dit le capitaine Renaud en marchant plus vite, c’est le mot actuel ; quel mot puéril ! Je déteste l’admiration ; c’est le principe de trop de mauvaises actions. On la donne à trop bon marché à présent, et à tout le monde ; nous devons bien nous garder d’admirer légèrement.
Le reste du visage se composait d’un teint rosé, d’une lèvre mince, surmontée d’une moustache fauve et de dents admirables.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addmirable
- adimrable
- admiarble
- admirabble
- admirabel
- admirablle
- admiralbe
- admirbale
- admirrable
- admmirable
- admriable
- amdirable
- damirable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of admirable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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