breathlessly
"breathlessly" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breathlessly” is uncommon English (frequency #57,911 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,911
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a breathless manner, usually due to excitement, exertion, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-breathlessly · breathlessly · English
breathlessly · rank #57,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,911
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH breakable
Nearest frequency peer: breakable (-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 “breathlessly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- booklist
booklist
42,094 corpus weight
- Bracknell
Bracknell
42,093 corpus weight
- breakable
breakable
42,091 corpus weight
- breathlessly
breathlessly
42,090 corpus weight
- Brescia
Brescia
42,089 corpus weight
- buzzes
buzzes
42,085 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “breathlessly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breathlessly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “breathlessly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
breathlessly is uncommon English at frequency #57,911 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a breathless manner, usually due to excitement, exertion, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for breathlessly, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From breathless + -ly. The correct English form is breathlessly, spelled B-R-E-A-T-H-L-E-S-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a breathless manner, usually due to excitement, exertion, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breathlessly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The performers crowded breathlessly in the wings.
`Go on,' Barbie cried breathlessly.
Etymology
From breathless + -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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