Which to use
“abordable” and “adorable” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,401
- “abordable” frequency rank
- #6,263
- “adorable” frequency rank
- 20664
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | abordable | adorable |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Modéré, en parlant d'un prix. | Qui est digne d’être adoré. |
Where the eye mixes abordable and adorable
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. abordable runs 9 letters (VCVCCVCCV) against adorable's 8 (VCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: abordable vs adorable
A purely visual mix-up. abordable (\a.bɔʁ.dabl\) and adorable (\a.dɔ.ʁabl\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20664, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
abordable is recorded at frequency rank #14,401, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.bɔʁ.dabl\. adorable is at rank #6,263, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.dɔ.ʁabl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 20664, this pair ranks #367,139 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of abordable vs adorable
Shared letters: abdelor. Private to "abordable": -. Private to "adorable": -.
"abordable" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCCV · "adorable" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "abordable" and "adorable" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "abordable" or "adorable" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "abordable" and "adorable" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "abordable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adorable" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #367,139 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "abordable" and "adorable" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "abordable vs abordage". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #367,139 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.