contemporaneously
/kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/
"contemporaneously" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“contemporaneously” is uncommon English (frequency #75,754 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,754
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contemporaneously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #75,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contemporaneously” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
contemporaneously is uncommon English at frequency #75,754 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.".
No misspelling variants are generated for contemporaneously in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”). The correct English form is contemporaneously, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.
Etymology
From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).
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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Using “contemporaneously”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-O-U-S-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.