flippantly
"flippantly" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flippantly” is uncommon English (frequency #84,256 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,256
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a flippant manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flippantly · flippantly · English
flippantly · rank #84,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,256
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flipboard
Nearest frequency peer: flipboard (-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 “flippantly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Firmin
Firmin
15,750 corpus weight
- Flatt
Flatt
15,747 corpus weight
- flipboard
flipboard
15,746 corpus weight
- flippantly
flippantly
15,745 corpus weight
- flutist
flutist
15,744 corpus weight
- formalist
formalist
15,737 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flippantly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flippantly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flippantly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flippantly is uncommon English at frequency #84,256 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a flippant manner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for flippantly, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flippant + -ly. The correct English form is flippantly, spelled F-L-I-P-P-A-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a flippant manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flippantly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
In response to the announcement on X Tuesday, Newsom flippantly posted, “You bent the knee” with a screenshot of Trump writing about Musk visiting the White House during his presidency.
Etymology
From flippant + -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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