covalently
"covalently" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“covalently” is uncommon English (frequency #69,760 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,760
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Using covalent bonds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-covalently · covalently · English
covalently · rank #69,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,760
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH costumer
Nearest frequency peer: costumer (-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 “covalently”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- continuo
continuo
30,246 corpus weight
- costumer
costumer
30,242 corpus weight
- covalently
covalently
30,241 corpus weight
- cowherd
cowherd
30,240 corpus weight
- CPB
CPB
30,239 corpus weight
- creaming
creaming
30,237 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “covalently” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | covalently |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “covalently” in English
Rare enough to double-check
covalently is uncommon English at frequency #69,760 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Using covalent bonds.".
No misspelling variants are generated for covalently in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From covalent + -ly. The correct English form is covalently, spelled C-O-V-A-L-E-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Using covalent bonds.
Etymology
From covalent + -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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