perpendicularly
"perpendicularly" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“perpendicularly” is uncommon English (frequency #78,008 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,008
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a perpendicular manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-perpendicularly · perpendicularly · English
perpendicularly · rank #78,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,008
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH percolation
Nearest frequency peer: percolation (-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 “perpendicularly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pbk
pbk
21,998 corpus weight
- Pema
Pema
21,995 corpus weight
- percolation
percolation
21,994 corpus weight
- perpendicul…
perpendicularly
21,993 corpus weight
- Perris
Perris
21,992 corpus weight
- pervade
pervade
21,990 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “perpendicularly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perpendicularly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #78,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “perpendicularly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
perpendicularly is uncommon English at frequency #78,008 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a perpendicular manner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for perpendicularly in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From perpendicular + -ly. The correct English form is perpendicularly, spelled P-E-R-P-E-N-D-I-C-U-L-A-R-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a perpendicular manner.
Etymology
From perpendicular + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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