gentlemanly
"gentlemanly" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gentlemanly” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,939. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,939
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gentlemanly · gentlemanly · English
gentlemanly · rank #45,939 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,939
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gesellschaft
Nearest frequency peer: Gesellschaft (+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 “gentlemanly”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gatehouse
gatehouse
54,064 corpus weight
- gentlemanly
gentlemanly
54,062 corpus weight
- Gesellschaft
Gesellschaft
54,061 corpus weight
- Gillett
Gillett
54,060 corpus weight
- Giordano
Giordano
54,059 corpus weight
- gloat
gloat
54,058 corpus weight
What this shows “gentlemanly” 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 | gentlemanly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #45,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gentlemanly”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around gentlemanly, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,939 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for gentlemanly, with forms such as "egntlemanly", "genltemanly", and "genntlemanly". 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, "gentleman", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adjectival suffix). The correct English form is gentlemanly, spelled G-E-N-T-L-E-M-A-N-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gentlemanly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Best of all, he ought to imagine his fellow-gamblers and the rest of the mob which stands trembling over a coin to be equally rich and gentlemanly with himself, and playing solely for recreation and pleasure.
With an election to cover and the soccer season in full swing, the sudoku newspaper rivalry stayed relatively gentlemanly until this month, when some of the last sudoku holdouts, including The Independent and The Guardian, joined the fray.
Etymology
From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egntlemanly
- genltemanly
- genntlemanly
- gentelmanly
- gentleamnly
- gentlemalny
- gentlemanlly
- gentlemanlyy
- gentlemannly
- gentlemanyl
- gentlemmanly
- gentlemnaly
- gentllemanly
- gentlmeanly
- genttlemanly
- getnlemanly
- ggentlemanly
- gnetlemanly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gentlemanly - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).