flamboyantly
"flamboyantly" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flamboyantly” is uncommon English (frequency #98,121 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,121
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a flamboyant manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flamboyantly · flamboyantly · English
flamboyantly · rank #98,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,121
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH finny
Nearest frequency peer: finny (-2 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 “flamboyantly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fiddlesticks
fiddlesticks
1,886 corpus weight
- filch
filch
1,885 corpus weight
- Finan
Finan
1,883 corpus weight
- finny
finny
1,882 corpus weight
- flamboyantly
flamboyantly
1,880 corpus weight
- flautist
flautist
1,878 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flamboyantly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamboyantly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flamboyantly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flamboyantly is uncommon English at frequency #98,121 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a flamboyant manner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flamboyantly, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flamboyant + -ly. The correct English form is flamboyantly, spelled F-L-A-M-B-O-Y-A-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a flamboyant manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flamboyantly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frant and Etchingham [station buildings] are more flamboyantly gothic and are built of ragstone.
The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for n…
Etymology
From flamboyant + -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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