athletically
"athletically" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“athletically” is uncommon English (frequency #62,687 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,687
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an athletic manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-athletically · athletically · English
athletically · rank #62,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,687
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH attenuate
Nearest frequency peer: attenuate (+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 “athletically”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Artois
Artois
37,318 corpus weight
- Ashkelon
Ashkelon
37,317 corpus weight
- Ashmore
Ashmore
37,316 corpus weight
- athletically
athletically
37,314 corpus weight
- attenuate
attenuate
37,313 corpus weight
- Ayub
Ayub
37,311 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “athletically” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | athletically |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “athletically” in English
Rare enough to double-check
athletically is uncommon English at frequency #62,687 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In an athletic manner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for athletically in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From athletic + -ally. The correct English form is athletically, spelled A-T-H-L-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an athletic manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how athletically appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An email from ICE headquarters to the agency’s top officials on October 5 lamented that “a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates” had been showing up to the academy; they had “misrepresented” their physical condition on application forms. The email directed leaders at ICE’s field offices to conduct preliminary fitness exams with new recr…
Etymology
From athletic + -ally.
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).