explicitly

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for explicitly is 10 letters long, classified as anadv. Corpus data places it at rank #7,561 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In an explicit manner.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for explicitly, with forms such as "epxlicitly", "exlpicitly", and "expilcitly". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "explicit", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From explicit + -ly. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is explicitly, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T-L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.