impartially

adv

"impartially" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“impartially” is uncommon English (frequency #57,450 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,450
frequency rank, English
2,140
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an impartial manner; fairly.

Corpus desk

Index EN-impartially · impartially · English

impartially · rank #57,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,450
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,140
  • PHOTO-FINISH imbalanced

Nearest frequency peer: imbalanced (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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Long-tail ranks near “impartially”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “impartially” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for impartially
PropertyValue
Headwordimpartially
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdverb
Letters11
Frequency rank#57,450
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “impartially” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).impartiallyfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “imbalanced” (#57,449), “impermeable” (#57,451), “imager” (#57,448). Among 2,140 “I” headwords, “impartially” is #57,450. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

impartially is uncommon English at frequency #57,450 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In an impartial manner; fairly.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for impartially, 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 impartial + -ly. The correct English form is impartially, spelled I-M-P-A-R-T-I-A-L-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    In an impartial manner; fairly.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how impartially appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] to the inspection of many Orientalists among your readers, very well qualified to decide impartially on the comparative merits of my scheme, at least in its application to the two indispensable languages for British India: namely, the Hindoostanee and Persian tongue.
  2. Inasmuch as our correspondent has such a poor opinion of the capacity of men to write understandingly and impartially upon feminine topics, we say to her and everybody else, "The lists are open, ladies—hissez alia!" We will be but as the heralds at the tourney, to sound the trumpets and preserve order.

Etymology

From impartial + -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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impartially"?
"impartially" is spelled I-M-P-A-R-T-I-A-L-L-Y.
What does "impartially" mean?
As an adverb, "impartially" means: In an impartial manner; fairly.
What is the origin of the word "impartially"?
From impartial + -ly. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list