compulsorily
"compulsorily" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“compulsorily” is uncommon English (frequency #73,974 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,974
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a compulsory manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-compulsorily · compulsorily · English
compulsorily · rank #73,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,974
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH complainer
Nearest frequency peer: complainer (-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 “compulsorily”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- comorbidity
comorbidity
26,030 corpus weight
- complainer
complainer
26,028 corpus weight
- compulsorily
compulsorily
26,027 corpus weight
- computable
computable
26,026 corpus weight
- Conroe
Conroe
26,025 corpus weight
- conservator…
conservatorship
26,024 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “compulsorily” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compulsorily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “compulsorily” in English
Rare enough to double-check
compulsorily is uncommon English at frequency #73,974 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a compulsory manner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for compulsorily in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From compulsory + -ly. The correct English form is compulsorily, spelled C-O-M-P-U-L-S-O-R-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a compulsory manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how compulsorily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soldiers were drafted compulsorily.
These Governments [of Ireland and Northern Ireland] have now announced their intention to introduce measures enabling them compulsorily to purchase the railway.
Etymology
From compulsory + -ly.
Antonyms
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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