grotesquely
"grotesquely" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grotesquely” is uncommon English (frequency #62,937 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,937
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a grotesque manner; disgustingly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grotesquely · grotesquely · English
grotesquely · rank #62,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,937
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grungy
Nearest frequency peer: grungy (+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 “grotesquely”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gratia
Gratia
37,068 corpus weight
- Grenier
Grenier
37,066 corpus weight
- grotesquely
grotesquely
37,064 corpus weight
- grungy
grungy
37,063 corpus weight
- gunsmith
gunsmith
37,062 corpus weight
- gushes
gushes
37,061 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grotesquely” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grotesquely |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grotesquely” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grotesquely is uncommon English at frequency #62,937 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a grotesque manner; disgustingly.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grotesquely, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From grotesque + -ly. The correct English form is grotesquely, spelled G-R-O-T-E-S-Q-U-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a grotesque manner; disgustingly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grotesquely appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Till the grotesquely angry scene was interrupted by the arrival of Mina, who came asking for Andrew.
Anything more appalling than this jumbled mass of the remains of a departed race I cannot imagine, and what made it even more dreadful was that in this dry air a considerable number of the bodies had simply become desiccated with the skin still on them, and now, fixed in every conceivable position, stared at us out of the mountain of white bones, grotesqu…
Etymology
From grotesque + -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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