compassionately
"compassionately" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“compassionately” is uncommon English (frequency #82,190 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,190
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a compassionate manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-compassionately · compassionately · English
compassionately · rank #82,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,190
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Coahuila
Nearest frequency peer: Coahuila (-3 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 “compassionately”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- closeout
closeout
17,817 corpus weight
- Coahuila
Coahuila
17,814 corpus weight
- compassiona…
compassionately
17,811 corpus weight
- coring
coring
17,808 corpus weight
- crapper
crapper
17,805 corpus weight
- crasher
crasher
17,804 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “compassionately” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compassionately |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #82,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “compassionately” in English
Rare enough to double-check
compassionately is uncommon English at frequency #82,190 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a compassionate manner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for compassionately, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From compassionate + -ly. The correct English form is compassionately, spelled C-O-M-P-A-S-S-I-O-N-A-T-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a compassionate manner.
Etymology
From compassionate + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).