radially
"radially" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“radially” is uncommon English (frequency #53,800 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,800
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a radial manner, outward from a center.
Corpus desk
Index EN-radially · radially · English
radially · rank #53,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,800
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH quarried
Nearest frequency peer: quarried (-4 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 “radially”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- psychopathy
psychopathy
46,208 corpus weight
- Puente
Puente
46,206 corpus weight
- quarried
quarried
46,205 corpus weight
- radially
radially
46,201 corpus weight
- ravaging
ravaging
46,197 corpus weight
- realign
realign
46,196 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “radially” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radially |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “radially” in English
Rare enough to double-check
radially is uncommon English at frequency #53,800 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a radial manner, outward from a center.".
radially doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From radial + -ly. The correct English form is radially, spelled R-A-D-I-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a radial manner, outward from a center.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how radially appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;
Etymology
From radial + -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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