Which to use
“excited” is an adjective and “excitedly” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,860
- “excited” frequency rank
- #26,781
- “excitedly” frequency rank
- 28641
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excited | excitedly |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Having great enthusiasm, passion and energy. | In an excited manner. |
Letter map: excited vs excitedly
Shared letters muted; letters that set excited and excitedly apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. excited runs 7 letters (VCCVCVC) against excitedly's 9 (VCCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Grammar separator: excited vs excitedly
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: excited is anadjective and excitedlyanadverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “excited” sits inside “excitedly”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28641, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excited is recorded at frequency rank #1,860, classified as anadj, pronounced /ɪkˈsaɪtɪd/. excitedly is at rank #26,781, 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 28641, this pair ranks #369,474 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excited vs excitedly
Shared letters: cdeitx. Private to "excited": -. Private to "excitedly": ly.
"excited" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "excitedly" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excited" and "excitedly" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary English text, does "excited" or "excitedly" show up more?
What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "excited" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excitedly" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #369,474 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excited" and "excitedly" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exalted vs excited". 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 #369,474 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.