disappointingly
"disappointingly" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disappointingly” is uncommon English (frequency #54,122 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,122
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a disappointing manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-disappointingly · disappointingly · English
disappointingly · rank #54,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,122
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH directness
Nearest frequency peer: directness (-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 “disappointingly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dene
dene
45,883 corpus weight
- dicked
dicked
45,881 corpus weight
- directness
directness
45,880 corpus weight
- disappointi…
disappointingly
45,879 corpus weight
- disjoint
disjoint
45,878 corpus weight
- distrusted
distrusted
45,876 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “disappointingly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disappointingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #54,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “disappointingly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
disappointingly is uncommon English at frequency #54,122 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a disappointing manner.".
disappointingly has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From disappointing + -ly. The correct English form is disappointingly, spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a disappointing manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disappointingly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I spent countless hours revising, but, disappointingly, I still failed the exam.
The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
Etymology
From disappointing + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).