phylogenetically
"phylogenetically" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“phylogenetically” is uncommon English (frequency #98,570 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,570
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - based on phylogenetics
Corpus desk
Index EN-phylogenetically · phylogenetically · English
phylogenetically · rank #98,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,570
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH photochemistry
Nearest frequency peer: photochemistry (-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 “phylogenetically”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pharmacodyn…
pharmacodynamics
1,437 corpus weight
- phin
phin
1,435 corpus weight
- phonic
phonic
1,434 corpus weight
- photochemis…
photochemistry
1,432 corpus weight
- phylogeneti…
phylogenetically
1,431 corpus weight
- plasmonic
plasmonic
1,427 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “phylogenetically” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phylogenetically |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #98,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “phylogenetically” in English
Rare enough to double-check
phylogenetically is uncommon English at frequency #98,570 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "based on phylogenetics".
No misspelling variants are generated for phylogenetically in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From phylogenetic + -ally. The correct English form is phylogenetically, spelled P-H-Y-L-O-G-E-N-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1based on phylogenetics
Etymology
From phylogenetic + -ally.
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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