drizzly
"drizzly" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drizzly” is uncommon English (frequency #78,551 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,551
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drizzly · drizzly · English
drizzly · rank #78,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,551
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH DTF
Nearest frequency peer: DTF (+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 “drizzly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dousing
dousing
21,457 corpus weight
- DPO
DPO
21,453 corpus weight
- drizzly
drizzly
21,450 corpus weight
- DTF
DTF
21,449 corpus weight
- Duchesne
Duchesne
21,448 corpus weight
- ducting
ducting
21,447 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “drizzly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drizzly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “drizzly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
drizzly is uncommon English at frequency #78,551 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for drizzly, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From drizzle + -y. The correct English form is drizzly, spelled D-R-I-Z-Z-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drizzly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thursday, January 21, was a miserable, wet, drizzly day; the thaw started fairly rapidly and transport began to move again.
On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.
Etymology
From drizzle + -y.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).