difficultly
"difficultly" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“difficultly” is uncommon English (frequency #98,027 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,027
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - With difficulty; not easily.
Corpus desk
Index EN-difficultly · difficultly · English
difficultly · rank #98,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,027
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH diclofenac
Nearest frequency peer: diclofenac (-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 “difficultly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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1,975 corpus weight
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1,974 corpus weight
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1,973 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “difficultly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | difficultly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “difficultly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
difficultly is uncommon English at frequency #98,027 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "With difficulty; not easily.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for difficultly in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From difficult + -ly. The correct English form is difficultly, spelled D-I-F-F-I-C-U-L-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1With difficulty; not easily.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how difficultly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In fact, we regard these efforts as insults on our understanding, and to such the pride of man is very difficultly brought to submit.
Etymology
From difficult + -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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