favorable

/\fa.vɔ.ʁabl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,072

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

favorable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui marque une bienveillante attention ou une préférence marquée pour quelqu’un. Pronounced \fa.vɔ.ʁabl\. It ranks #3,072 in French word frequency. Often confused with favorables.

Key facts for favorable
PropertyValue
Headwordfavorable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\fa.vɔ.ʁabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,072
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for favorable is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.vɔ.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,072 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 favorable, with forms such as "afvorable", "faovrable", and "favoarble". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "favorables", 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 favorable, spelled F-A-V-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 marque une bienveillante attention ou une préférence marquée pour quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Qui est avantageux et tel qu’on le désire pour la fin qu’on se propose.
  3. 3
    Qui est à l’avantage de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: afvorable,faovrable,favoarble,favorabble,favorabel,favorablle,favoralbe,favorbale,favorrable,favroable,favvorable,ffavorable,fvaorable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for favorable

Misspelling Variants of "favorable"

afvorable9faovrable9favoarble9favorabble10favorabel9favorablle10favoralbe9favorbale9
Misspelling Variants of "favorable"

Frequency rank: #3,072 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "favorable"?
"favorable" is spelled F-A-V-O-R-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.vɔ.ʁabl\.
What does "favorable" mean?
As an adj, "favorable" means: Qui marque une bienveillante attention ou une préférence marquée pour quelqu’un.
What words are commonly confused with "favorable"?
"favorable" is commonly confused with "favorables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "favorable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "favorable" is \fa.vɔ.ʁabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "favorable" come from?
"favorable" 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.