intricately
"intricately" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intricately” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,297
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-intricately · intricately · English
intricately · rank #40,297 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,297
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH intergenerati…
Nearest frequency peer: intergenerational (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “intricately”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Indi
Indi
59,707 corpus weight
- Inez
Inez
59,706 corpus weight
- intergenera…
intergenerational
59,705 corpus weight
- intricately
intricately
59,704 corpus weight
- invigorating
invigorating
59,703 corpus weight
- inwardly
inwardly
59,702 corpus weight
What this shows “intricately” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intricately |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #40,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “intricately”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around intricately, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #40,297 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for intricately, with forms such as "inntricately", "inrticately", and "intircately". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "intricate", "intimately", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From intricate + -ly. The correct English form is intricately, spelled I-N-T-R-I-C-A-T-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intricately appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charles followed the girl into the gallery, down which she was slowly proceeding, holding the little twisted scroll in her hand, and looking at it with that expression of fear and curiosity which seems to say, "Now, if you were not so intricately folded, I would open you and see your contents; but I shall not be able to replace these folds in proper order…
Etymology
From intricate + -ly.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inntricately
- inrticately
- intircately
- intrciately
- intriactely
- intricaetly
- intricatelly
- intricatelyy
- intricateyl
- intricatley
- intricattely
- intriccately
- intrictaely
- intrricately
- inttricately
- itnricately
- nitricately
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intricately - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).