pretty much
"pretty-much" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pretty much” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pretty much |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pretty much” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for pretty much is 11 letters long, classified as an adverb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.".
pretty much doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pretty much, spelled P-R-E-T-T-Y- -M-U-C-H.
Definition
- 1Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pretty much”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-E-T-T-Y- -M-U-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.