ceaselessly
"ceaselessly" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ceaselessly” is uncommon English (frequency #59,268 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,268
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without ceasing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ceaselessly · ceaselessly · English
ceaselessly · rank #59,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,268
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cauchy
Nearest frequency peer: Cauchy (-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 “ceaselessly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- carbonation
carbonation
40,737 corpus weight
- Catskills
Catskills
40,735 corpus weight
- Cauchy
Cauchy
40,734 corpus weight
- ceaselessly
ceaselessly
40,733 corpus weight
- Celina
Celina
40,732 corpus weight
- chafe
chafe
40,731 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ceaselessly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceaselessly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ceaselessly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ceaselessly is uncommon English at frequency #59,268 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without ceasing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ceaselessly in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ceaseless + -ly. The correct English form is ceaselessly, spelled C-E-A-S-E-L-E-S-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Without ceasing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ceaselessly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Etymology
From ceaseless + -ly.
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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