elegantly
"elegantly" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“elegantly” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,018
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
Corpus desk
Index EN-elegantly · elegantly · English
elegantly · rank #30,018 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,018
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH elated
Nearest frequency peer: elated (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “elegantly”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- EJ
EJ
69,985 corpus weight
- elated
elated
69,984 corpus weight
- elegantly
elegantly
69,983 corpus weight
- ember
ember
69,982 corpus weight
- Emmys
Emmys
69,980 corpus weight
- encampment
encampment
69,979 corpus weight
What this shows “elegantly” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elegantly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “elegantly”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around elegantly, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #30,018 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for elegantly, with forms such as "eelgantly", "eleagntly", and "eleganlty". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "elegant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From elegant + -ly. The correct English form is elegantly, spelled E-L-E-G-A-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how elegantly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
Etymology
From elegant + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eelgantly
- eleagntly
- eleganlty
- eleganntly
- elegantlly
- elegantlyy
- eleganttly
- elegantyl
- elegatnly
- eleggantly
- elegnatly
- elgeantly
- ellegantly
- leegantly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of elegantly - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).