Which to use
“bizarre” is an adjective and “bizarrely” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #6,872
- “bizarre” frequency rank
- #43,532
- “bizarrely” frequency rank
- 50404
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bizarre | bizarrely |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way. | In a bizarre manner. |
Letter map: bizarre vs bizarrely
Shared letters muted; letters that set bizarre and bizarrely apart highlighted. Shared run: 7.
Part-of-speech tell for bizarre / bizarrely
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bizarre is anadjective and bizarrelyanadverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “bizarre” sits inside “bizarrely”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50404, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bizarre is recorded at frequency rank #6,872, classified as anadj, pronounced /bəˈzɑɹ/. bizarrely is at rank #43,532, tagged as anadv.
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 50404, this pair ranks #174,593 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of bizarre vs bizarrely
Shared letters: abeirz. Private to "bizarre": -. Private to "bizarrely": ly.
"bizarre" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "bizarrely" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "bizarre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bizarrely" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #174,593 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bizarre" and "bizarrely" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bizarre vs bizarro". 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 #174,593 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.