Which to use
“excellency” is a noun and “excellently” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #16,228
- “excellency” frequency rank
- #38,831
- “excellently” frequency rank
- 55059
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellency | excellently |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Synonym of excellence; the quality of being excellent. | In a manner that demonstrates excellence; very well. |
Letter map: excellency vs excellently
Shared letters muted; letters that set excellency and excellently apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. excellency runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against excellently's 11 (VCCVCCVCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Grammar separator: excellency vs excellently
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: excellency is anoun and excellentlyanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55059, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excellency is recorded at frequency rank #16,228, classified as anoun. excellently is at rank #38,831, 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 55059, this pair ranks #136,448 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excellency vs excellently
Shared letters: celnxy. Private to "excellency": -. Private to "excellently": t.
"excellency" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "excellently" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellency ← ecxellency · exccellency · excelelncy · excelency · excellecny · excellenccy · excellencyy · excellenncy
- excellently ← ecxellently · exccellently · excelelntly · excelently · excellenlty · excellenntly · excellentlly · excellentlyy
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "excellency" and "excellently".
- Full dictionary entry for "excellency" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excellently" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #136,448 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellency" and "excellently" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excellent vs excellently". 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 #136,448 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.