rationally
"rationally" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rationally” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,220
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a rational manner
Corpus desk
Index EN-rationally · rationally · English
rationally · rank #26,220 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,220
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH radiotherapy
Nearest frequency peer: radiotherapy (-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 “rationally”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- puffs
puffs
73,787 corpus weight
- purposefully
purposefully
73,785 corpus weight
- radiotherapy
radiotherapy
73,782 corpus weight
- rationally
rationally
73,781 corpus weight
- Reddy
Reddy
73,779 corpus weight
- remedial
remedial
73,776 corpus weight
What this shows “rationally” 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 | rationally |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rationally”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around rationally, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #26,220 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In a rational manner".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rationally, with forms such as "artionally", "raitonally", and "ratinoally". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "regionally", "rational", "rationale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rational + -ly. The correct English form is rationally, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a rational manner
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rationally appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Concerning the lenity of God, upon which you have most rationally dilated, the 10th chapt. of the 1 booke of Proclus would extreamely delight you.
[…] inasmuch as nothing was really and rationally to be hoped for but a long continuance of the siege and wearying out of the English, they were naturally a little afraid of Joan's impetuous notions. He said— “You see, we are sure that the waiting game is the best, whereas you would carry everything by storm.”
Etymology
From rational + -ly.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artionally
- raitonally
- ratinoally
- ratioanlly
- rationallyy
- rationaly
- rationalyl
- rationlaly
- rationnally
- ratoinally
- rattionally
- rrationally
- rtaionally
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rationally - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).