gorgeously
"gorgeously" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gorgeously” is uncommon English (frequency #56,776 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,776
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a gorgeous manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gorgeously · gorgeously · English
gorgeously · rank #56,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,776
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gimmicky
Nearest frequency peer: gimmicky (-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 “gorgeously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gerbil
gerbil
43,230 corpus weight
- gimmicky
gimmicky
43,226 corpus weight
- gorgeously
gorgeously
43,225 corpus weight
- gossamer
gossamer
43,224 corpus weight
- gramercy
gramercy
43,223 corpus weight
- Grillo
Grillo
43,220 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gorgeously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gorgeously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gorgeously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gorgeously is uncommon English at frequency #56,776 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a gorgeous manner.".
gorgeously doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 gorgeous + -ly. The correct English form is gorgeously, spelled G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a gorgeous manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gorgeously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."
What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
Etymology
From gorgeous + -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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