palpably
"palpably" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palpably” is uncommon English (frequency #74,375 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,375
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a palpable manner; tangibly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palpably · palpably · English
palpably · rank #74,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,375
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH owt
Nearest frequency peer: owt (-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 “palpably”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- outdoorsman
outdoorsman
25,629 corpus weight
- owt
owt
25,627 corpus weight
- palpably
palpably
25,626 corpus weight
- paperboy
paperboy
25,625 corpus weight
- pastorate
pastorate
25,623 corpus weight
- peacefulness
peacefulness
25,620 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “palpably” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palpably |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “palpably” in English
Rare enough to double-check
palpably is uncommon English at frequency #74,375 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a palpable manner; tangibly.".
palpably has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From palpable + -ly. The correct English form is palpably, spelled P-A-L-P-A-B-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a palpable manner; tangibly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palpably appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Exiſtence is a perfection: Firſt it is palpably plain, according to that ſenſible Aphoriſm of Solomon, Better is a living Dog then a dead Lyon.
Mrs. Brown withdrawn, Phoebe came presently to bed to me, and what with the answers she drew from me, what with her own method of palpably satisfying herself
Etymology
From palpable + -ly.
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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