proportionately
"proportionately" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“proportionately” has 23 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,423. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,423
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.
Corpus desk
Index EN-proportionately · proportionately · English
proportionately · rank #44,423 · 23 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,423
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 23 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH proportionali…
Nearest frequency peer: proportionality (-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 “proportionately”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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55,582 corpus weight
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55,579 corpus weight
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55,578 corpus weight
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55,577 corpus weight
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55,576 corpus weight
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55,573 corpus weight
What this shows “proportionately” 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 | proportionately |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #44,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “proportionately”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around proportionately, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #44,423 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for proportionately, with forms such as "porportionately", "pproportionately", and "prooprtionately". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "proportionate", "proportionally", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From proportionate + -ly. The correct English form is proportionately, spelled P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-A-T-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.
Etymology
From proportionate + -ly.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porportionately
- pproportionately
- prooprtionately
- proporitonately
- proporrtionately
- proportinoately
- proportioantely
- proportionaetly
- proportionatelly
- proportionatelyy
- proportionateyl
- proportionatley
- proportionattely
- proportionnately
- proportiontaely
- proportoinately
- proporttionately
- propotrionately
- propportionately
- proprotionately
- prpoortionately
- prroportionately
- rpoportionately
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of proportionately - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "proportionately", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).