condescendingly
/kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/
"condescendingly" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“condescendingly” is uncommon English (frequency #76,660 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,660
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a condescending manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-condescendingly · condescendingly · English
condescendingly · rank #76,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,660
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH communally
Nearest frequency peer: communally (-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 “condescendingly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- collectivity
collectivity
23,346 corpus weight
- communally
communally
23,342 corpus weight
- condescendi…
condescendingly
23,341 corpus weight
- congealed
congealed
23,339 corpus weight
- Conran
Conran
23,338 corpus weight
- contrive
contrive
23,336 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “condescendingly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | condescendingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #76,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “condescendingly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
condescendingly is uncommon English at frequency #76,660 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a condescending manner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for condescendingly in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From condescending + -ly. The correct English form is condescendingly, spelled C-O-N-D-E-S-C-E-N-D-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a condescending manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how condescendingly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; and as there was some perilous probability, in the event of the Colonel and Coloneless saying ‘no,’ of the Captain’s proposing to Miss De Fudgeville, orphan daughter and heiress of the late Rear-Admiral De Fudgeville, who, though she was as ugly as sin, and had something the matter with her spine, had a fortune of ninety thousand pounds, the gallant…
He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.
Etymology
From condescending + -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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