admissible

\ad.mi.sibl\

/\ad.mi.sibl\/ adj

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The verdict

“admissible” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,628
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être admis.

Corpus desk

Index FR-admissible · admissible · French

admissible · rank #20,628 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,628
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH admirateurs

Nearest frequency peer: admirateurs (-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 « admissible »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « admissible » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

admissible vs admissibles
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for admissible
PropertyValue
Headwordadmissible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ad.mi.sibl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,628
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « admissible »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.admissiblese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « admirateurs » (#20,627), « Adolf » (#20,629), « acceptes » (#20,626). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « admissible » est au #20,628. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around admissible (IPA \ad.mi.sibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,628 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for admissible, with forms such as "addmissible", "adimssible", and "admisible". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "admissibles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is admissible, spelled A-D-M-I-S-S-I-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être admis.
  2. 2
    Qualifie quelqu'un qui a été déclaré digne de l’admissibilité dans un examen ou un concours.
  3. 3
    Même sens.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. (Acte notarié). La preuve testimoniale n'est pas admissible contre les énonciations d'un acte notarié relatives à sa substance , aux dispositions qu'il contient, aux formes et solennités qu'il constate avoir été observées.
  2. Dans le mémoire cité, M. Willems a proposé une autre étymologie du mot Gand, qui est sans doute ingénieuse et quelque peu poétique, mais qui nous paraît toutefois peu admissible.

This word in other languages

admissible(English)admisible(Español)zulässig(Deutsch)aceitável(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addmissible
  • adimssible
  • admisible
  • admisisble
  • admissbile
  • admissibble
  • admissibel
  • admissiblle
  • admissilbe
  • admmissible
  • admsisible
  • amdissible
  • damissible

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of admissible - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

addmissible1adimssible2admisible1admisisble2admissbile2admissibble1admissibel2admissiblle1
Edit distance from "admissible"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "admissible"?
"admissible" is spelled A-D-M-I-S-S-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.mi.sibl\.
What does "admissible" mean?
As an adjective, "admissible" means: Qui peut être admis.
What words are commonly confused with "admissible"?
"admissible" is commonly confused with "admissibles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "admissible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "admissible" is \ad.mi.sibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "admissible" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "admissible", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list