impartially
"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
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 “impartially”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- icicle
icicle
42,555 corpus weight
- Ikeda
Ikeda
42,554 corpus weight
- imager
imager
42,553 corpus weight
- imbalanced
imbalanced
42,552 corpus weight
- impartially
impartially
42,551 corpus weight
- impermeable
impermeable
42,550 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “impartially” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impartially |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “impartially” in English
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
- 1In an impartial manner; fairly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impartially appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] 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.
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.
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