marvelously
"marvelously" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marvelously” is uncommon English (frequency #66,819 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,819
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of marvellously.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marvelously · marvelously · English
marvelously · rank #66,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,819
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marxian
Nearest frequency peer: Marxian (+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 “marvelously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- magnesia
magnesia
33,187 corpus weight
- Mammon
Mammon
33,186 corpus weight
- marvelously
marvelously
33,182 corpus weight
- Marxian
Marxian
33,181 corpus weight
- Mathewson
Mathewson
33,178 corpus weight
- McIver
McIver
33,175 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marvelously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marvelously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marvelously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marvelously is uncommon English at frequency #66,819 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of marvellously.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marvelously, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From marvelous + -ly. The correct English form is marvelously, spelled M-A-R-V-E-L-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of marvellously.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marvelously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With a vicious lunge the elephant swerved to the right to dispose of this temerarious foeman who dared intervene between himself and his intended victim; but he had not reckoned on the lightning quickness that could galvanize those steel muscles into action so marvelously swift as to baffle even a keener eyesight than Tantor’s.
Etymology
From marvelous + -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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