honorabilité

\ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\

/\ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“honorabilité” is uncommon French (frequency #85,796 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,796
frequency rank, French
109,908
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualité de celle, de celui qui est regardé comme honorable.

Key facts for honorabilité
PropertyValue
Headwordhonorabilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#85,796
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “honorabilité” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). honorabilité lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

honorabilité is uncommon French at frequency #85,796 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de celle, de celui qui est regardé comme honorable.".

honorabilité has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is honorabilité, spelled H-O-N-O-R-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de celle, de celui qui est regardé comme honorable.

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 "honorabilité"?
"honorabilité" is spelled H-O-N-O-R-A-B-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\.
What does "honorabilité" mean?
As a noun, "honorabilité" means: Qualité de celle, de celui qui est regardé comme honorable.
How do you pronounce "honorabilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "honorabilité" is \ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "honorabilité" come from?
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Using “honorabilité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is H-O-N-O-R-A-B-I-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɔ.nɔ.ʁa.bi.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list