cheekily
"cheekily" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheekily” is uncommon English (frequency #92,446 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,446
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a cheeky or impudent manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheekily · cheekily · English
cheekily · rank #92,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,446
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Charleville
Nearest frequency peer: Charleville (-2 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 “cheekily”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- catchall
catchall
7,563 corpus weight
- centeredness
centeredness
7,561 corpus weight
- Charleville
Charleville
7,557 corpus weight
- cheekily
cheekily
7,555 corpus weight
- chintz
chintz
7,549 corpus weight
- Chiyoda
Chiyoda
7,548 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cheekily” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheekily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheekily” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheekily is uncommon English at frequency #92,446 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a cheeky or impudent manner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cheekily, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cheeky + -ly. The correct English form is cheekily, spelled C-H-E-E-K-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a cheeky or impudent manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheekily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The time passed. The two mice, careering wildly, scampered cheekily over his slippers. He had not moved a muscle.
Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."
Etymology
From cheeky + -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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