mournfully
/ˈmɔɹnfəli/
"mournfully" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mournfully” is uncommon English (frequency #99,596 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,596
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mournfully · mournfully · English
mournfully · rank #99,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,596
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mottling
Nearest frequency peer: mottling (-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 “mournfully”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mortlake
Mortlake
409 corpus weight
- motet
motet
407 corpus weight
- mottling
mottling
406 corpus weight
- mournfully
mournfully
405 corpus weight
- Mukden
Mukden
403 corpus weight
- mullett
mullett
402 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mournfully” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mournfully |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈmɔɹnfəli/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mournfully” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mournfully is uncommon English at frequency #99,596 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ˈmɔɹnfəli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mournfully in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mournful + -ly. The correct English form is mournfully, spelled M-O-U-R-N-F-U-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mournfully appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above…
The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.
Etymology
From mournful + -ly.
Synonyms
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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