dominantly
"dominantly" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dominantly” is an uncommon English word, ranked #72,249 in English word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #72,249
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In a dominant manner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dominantly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dominantly” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dominantly is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #72,249 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In a dominant manner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dominantly in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dominant + -ly. The correct English form is dominantly, spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a dominant manner.
Etymology
From dominant + -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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Using “dominantly”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T-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.