greedily
"greedily" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“greedily” is uncommon English (frequency #60,130 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,130
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-greedily · greedily · English
greedily · rank #60,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,130
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gregoire
Nearest frequency peer: Gregoire (+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 “greedily”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- GPT
GPT
39,877 corpus weight
- Grampian
Grampian
39,875 corpus weight
- greedily
greedily
39,871 corpus weight
- Gregoire
Gregoire
39,870 corpus weight
- gtd
gtd
39,866 corpus weight
- guac
guac
39,865 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “greedily” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | greedily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “greedily” in English
Rare enough to double-check
greedily is uncommon English at frequency #60,130 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for greedily in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English grǣdiglīce, grǣdelīce; equivalent to greedy + -ly. The correct English form is greedily, spelled G-R-E-E-D-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greedily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The two dogs greedily devoured the meat.
I gazed greedily on the gems in the shop window.
Etymology
From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English grǣdiglīce, grǣdelīce; equivalent to greedy + -ly.
This word in other languages
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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