honorable

/\ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,861

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

honorable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui fait honneur ; qui attire de l’honneur et du respect. Pronounced \ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\. It ranks #8,861 in French word frequency. Often confused with honoraire and honorables.

Key facts for honorable
PropertyValue
Headwordhonorable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,861
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for honorable is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,861 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 honorable, with forms such as "hhonorable", "hnoorable", and "honnorable". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "honoraire", "honorables", 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 honorable, spelled H-O-N-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 fait honneur ; qui attire de l’honneur et du respect.
  2. 2
    Qui mérite d’être honoré, considéré.
  3. 3
    Qui est conforme à la bienséance.
  4. 4
    Qualifie celui ou celle qui vit honnêtement.
  5. 5
    Terme de civilité dans le langage parlementaire.
  6. 6
    Qualifie une fortune, pour indiquer sa situation moyenne, une aisance solide et bien assise.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hhonorable,hnoorable,honnorable,honoarble,honorabble,honorabel,honorablle,honoralbe,honorbale,honorrable,honroable,hoonrable,ohnorable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for honorable

Misspelling Variants of "honorable"

hhonorable10hnoorable9honnorable10honoarble9honorabble10honorabel9honorablle10honoralbe9
Misspelling Variants of "honorable"

Frequency rank: #8,861 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "honorable"?
"honorable" is spelled H-O-N-O-R-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\.
What does "honorable" mean?
As an adj, "honorable" means: Qui fait honneur ; qui attire de l’honneur et du respect.
What words are commonly confused with "honorable"?
"honorable" is commonly confused with "honoraire", "honorables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "honorable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "honorable" is \ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "honorable" come from?
"honorable" 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.