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orthographically

adverb

orthographically is an adverb meaning “Regarding or relating to orthography (the way in which languages, usually natural languages, are written)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does orthographically mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    Regarding or relating to orthography (the way in which languages, usually natural languages, are written).

    Although it is possible to represent this phonetic distinction orthographically, such representation is not emically realized.

  2. 2

    According to standardized or formally accepted orthography: using proper spelling, and (more strictly) proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italics.

    stylings that are orthographically valid (acceptable), albeit not preferable

  3. 3

    Using an orthographic projection (a way of showing three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional engineering drawings).

    To represent an internal feature orthographically, dashed lines are used instead of solid ones.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is orthographically?

Orthographically appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Orthographically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in an orthographical manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchorthographiquement
Portugueseortograficamente
Spanishortográficamente

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does orthographically come from?

From orthographical + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).