Which to use
“popularity” is a noun and “popularly” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,788
- “popularity” frequency rank
- #23,070
- “popularly” frequency rank
- 27858
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | popularity | popularly |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being widely liked or in favor with the people at large. | In a popular manner. |
Letter map: popularity vs popularly
Shared letters muted; letters that set popularity and popularly apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. popularity runs 10 letters (CVCVCVCVCV) against popularly's 9 (CVCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - popularity and popularly
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: popularity is anoun and popularlyanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
popularity is recorded at frequency rank #4,788, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˌpɒp.jəˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/. popularly is at rank #23,070, 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 27858, this pair ranks #375,545 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of popularity vs popularly
Shared letters: alopruy. Private to "popularity": it. Private to "popularly": -.
"popularity" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCV · "popularly" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- popularity ← oppularity · popluarity · poppularity · popualrity · populairty · popularitty · popularityy · populariyt
- popularly ← oppularly · popluarly · poppularly · popualrly · populalry · popularlly · popularlyy · popularrly
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "popularity" for "popularly" ever safe?
Frequency check: "popularity" vs "popularly" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "popularity" and "popularly". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "popularity" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "popularly" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #375,545 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "popularity" and "popularly" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "polarity vs popularity". 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 #375,545 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.