comprehensibly

adv

"comprehensibly" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“comprehensibly” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a comprehensible manner.

Corpus desk

Index EN-comprehensibly · comprehensibly · English

comprehensibly · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for comprehensibly
PropertyValue
Headwordcomprehensibly
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdverb
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “comprehensibly” in English

comprehensiblysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

comprehensibly is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a comprehensible manner.".

No misspelling variants are generated for comprehensibly in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From comprehensible + -ly. The correct English form is comprehensibly, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-B-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    In a comprehensible manner.

Etymology

From comprehensible + -ly.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comprehensibly"?
"comprehensibly" is spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-B-L-Y.
What does "comprehensibly" mean?
As an adverb, "comprehensibly" means: In a comprehensible manner.
What is the origin of the word "comprehensibly"?
From comprehensible + -ly. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list