appallingly
/ʌˈpɑlɪŋli/
"appallingly" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appallingly” is uncommon English (frequency #65,691 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,691
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an appalling manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-appallingly · appallingly · English
appallingly · rank #65,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,691
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH AoE
Nearest frequency peer: AoE (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “appallingly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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34,314 corpus weight
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34,311 corpus weight
- appallingly
appallingly
34,310 corpus weight
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appendectomy
34,309 corpus weight
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applet
34,308 corpus weight
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arachnid
34,307 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “appallingly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appallingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ʌˈpɑlɪŋli/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “appallingly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
appallingly is uncommon English at frequency #65,691 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ʌˈpɑlɪŋli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In an appalling manner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for appallingly, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From appalling + -ly. The correct English form is appallingly, spelled A-P-P-A-L-L-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an appalling manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appallingly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
Etymology
From appalling + -ly.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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