monstrously
"monstrously" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“monstrously” is uncommon English (frequency #70,919 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,919
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a monstrous manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-monstrously · monstrously · English
monstrously · rank #70,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,919
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Moniz
Nearest frequency peer: Moniz (-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 “monstrously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Moises
Moises
29,085 corpus weight
- moisten
moisten
29,084 corpus weight
- Moniz
Moniz
29,083 corpus weight
- monstrously
monstrously
29,082 corpus weight
- Montparnasse
Montparnasse
29,081 corpus weight
- mope
mope
29,080 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “monstrously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monstrously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “monstrously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
monstrously is uncommon English at frequency #70,919 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a monstrous manner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for monstrously, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From monstrous + -ly. The correct English form is monstrously, spelled M-O-N-S-T-R-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a monstrous manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monstrously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.
This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicke…
Etymology
From monstrous + -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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