bluntly
/ˈblʌntli/
"bluntly" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bluntly” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,345
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bluntly · bluntly · English
bluntly · rank #26,345 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,345
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blob
Nearest frequency peer: blob (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bluntly”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- beets
beets
73,660 corpus weight
- bellows
bellows
73,659 corpus weight
- blob
blob
73,657 corpus weight
- bluntly
bluntly
73,656 corpus weight
- Bohemia
Bohemia
73,655 corpus weight
- Bonaparte
Bonaparte
73,654 corpus weight
What this shows “bluntly” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluntly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈblʌntli/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bluntly”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bluntly (IPA /ˈblʌntli/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #26,345 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bluntly, with forms such as "bbluntly", "blluntly", and "blnutly". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bounty", "blunt", "blindly", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blunt + -ly. The correct English form is bluntly, spelled B-L-U-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bluntly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue: I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe Haue to their names tytles of dignitie, And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
To put it bluntly, they are going to have to start defending a heck of a lot better than they have been, otherwise their season - and top-flight status - could well be over before they know it.
Etymology
From blunt + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbluntly
- blluntly
- blnutly
- blunlty
- blunntly
- bluntlly
- bluntlyy
- blunttly
- bluntyl
- blutnly
- bulntly
- lbuntly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bluntly - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).