inordinately
"inordinately" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inordinately” is uncommon English (frequency #72,423 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,423
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an inordinate manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inordinately · inordinately · English
inordinately · rank #72,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,423
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inefficiently
Nearest frequency peer: inefficiently (-2 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 “inordinately”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- incomparably
incomparably
27,582 corpus weight
- IndE
IndE
27,581 corpus weight
- inefficient…
inefficiently
27,580 corpus weight
- inordinately
inordinately
27,578 corpus weight
- intermixed
intermixed
27,575 corpus weight
- inti
inti
27,574 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “inordinately” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inordinately |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #72,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “inordinately” in English
Rare enough to double-check
inordinately is uncommon English at frequency #72,423 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In an inordinate manner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for inordinately, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From inordinate + -ly. The correct English form is inordinately, spelled I-N-O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an inordinate manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inordinately appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product.
And then she giggles, inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.
Etymology
From inordinate + -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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