famously
"famously" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“famously” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,165. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,165
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a celebrated manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-famously · famously · English
famously · rank #15,165 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,165
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH expectancy
Nearest frequency peer: expectancy (-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 “famously”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- exhaustion
exhaustion
84,838 corpus weight
- expectancy
expectancy
84,837 corpus weight
- famously
famously
84,836 corpus weight
- fella
fella
84,835 corpus weight
- fielding
fielding
84,834 corpus weight
- fingerprint
fingerprint
84,833 corpus weight
What this shows “famously” 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 | famously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “famously”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around famously, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #15,165 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for famously, with forms such as "afmously", "fammously", and "famosuly". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "famous", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From famous + -ly. The correct English form is famously, spelled F-A-M-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a celebrated manner.
- 2Indicates that the act, state, or occurrence described by the sentence is famous. In such a manner as to become famous or produce something that would become famous.
- 3Really well, having great rapport.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how famously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
President Roosevelt famously said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
But even as religion was on the rise, the word "God" declined dramatically over the course of the eighteenth century. The word is famously absent from the Constitution, but it was also relatively absent from the printed texts of the decade in which the Constitution was drafted and adopted, and more broadly from the revolutionary period overall.
Etymology
From famous + -ly.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afmously
- fammously
- famosuly
- famoulsy
- famouslly
- famouslyy
- famoussly
- famousyl
- famuosly
- faomusly
- ffamously
- fmaously
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of famously - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "famously", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).