disapprovingly
"disapprovingly" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disapprovingly” is uncommon English (frequency #99,183 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,183
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a disapproving manner
Corpus desk
Index EN-disapprovingly · disapprovingly · English
disapprovingly · rank #99,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,183
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH diplomate
Nearest frequency peer: diplomate (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “disapprovingly”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “disapprovingly” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disapprovingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #99,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disapprovingly” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
disapprovingly is uncommon English at frequency #99,183 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a disapproving manner".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for disapprovingly, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From disapproving + -ly. The correct English form is disapprovingly, spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-R-O-V-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a disapproving manner
Etymology
From disapproving + -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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