outrageously
"outrageously" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outrageously” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,134
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
Corpus desk
Index EN-outrageously · outrageously · English
outrageously · rank #37,134 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #37,134
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outro
Nearest frequency peer: outro (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “outrageously”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Osmond
Osmond
62,870 corpus weight
- outdone
outdone
62,869 corpus weight
- outrageously
outrageously
62,867 corpus weight
- outro
outro
62,866 corpus weight
- Pacino
Pacino
62,864 corpus weight
- Palisades
Palisades
62,863 corpus weight
What this shows “outrageously” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outrageously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #37,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “outrageously”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around outrageously, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #37,134 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for outrageously, with forms such as "oturageously", "ourtageously", and "outargeously". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "outrageous", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English outrageously, equivalent to outrageous + -ly. The correct English form is outrageously, spelled O-U-T-R-A-G-E-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outrageously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The hotel was wonderful, but the food was outrageously expensive.
[…] John Currin moved from painting yearbookish images of anonymous girls to painting outrageously goofy pictures of women with ridiculously oversize breasts.
Etymology
From Middle English outrageously, equivalent to outrageous + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturageously
- ourtageously
- outargeously
- outraegously
- outrageosuly
- outrageoulsy
- outrageouslly
- outrageouslyy
- outrageoussly
- outrageousyl
- outrageuosly
- outraggeously
- outragoeusly
- outrgaeously
- outrrageously
- outtrageously
- uotrageously
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of outrageously - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).