mischievously
"mischievously" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mischievously” is uncommon English (frequency #76,994 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,994
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a mischievous manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mischievously · mischievously · English
mischievously · rank #76,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,994
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH miscarry
Nearest frequency peer: miscarry (-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 “mischievously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- microglia
microglia
23,012 corpus weight
- milepost
milepost
23,011 corpus weight
- miscarry
miscarry
23,008 corpus weight
- mischievous…
mischievously
23,007 corpus weight
- Misrata
Misrata
23,005 corpus weight
- monetarily
monetarily
23,003 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mischievously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mischievously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #76,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mischievously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mischievously is uncommon English at frequency #76,994 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a mischievous manner.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mischievously, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly. The correct English form is mischievously, spelled M-I-S-C-H-I-E-V-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a mischievous manner.
Etymology
From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).