adorable

/\a.dɔ.ʁabl\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,263

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

adorable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est digne d’être adoré. Pronounced \a.dɔ.ʁabl\. It ranks #6,263 in French word frequency. Often confused with adorables and abordable.

Key facts for adorable
PropertyValue
Headwordadorable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a.dɔ.ʁabl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,263
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adorable in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for adorable is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dɔ.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,263 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for adorable, with forms such as "addorable", "adoarble", and "adorabble". 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, "adorables", "abordable", "admirable", 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 adorable, spelled A-D-O-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

  1. 1
    Qui est digne d’être adoré.
  2. 2
    Qui est digne d’un grand amour, d’une grande amitié.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: addorable,adoarble,adorabble,adorabel,adorablle,adoralbe,adorbale,adorrable,adroable,aodrable,daorable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adorable

Misspelling Variants of "adorable"

addorable9adoarble8adorabble9adorabel8adorablle9adoralbe8adorbale8adorrable9
Misspelling Variants of "adorable"

Frequency rank: #6,263 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adorable"?
"adorable" is spelled A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dɔ.ʁabl\.
What does "adorable" mean?
As an adj, "adorable" means: Qui est digne d’être adoré.
What words are commonly confused with "adorable"?
"adorable" is commonly confused with "adorables", "abordable", "admirable". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adorable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adorable" is \a.dɔ.ʁabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adorable" come from?
"adorable" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.