recreationally
"recreationally" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recreationally” is uncommon English (frequency #73,580 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,580
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a recreational manner, for recreation, for fun or entertainment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-recreationally · recreationally · English
recreationally · rank #73,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,580
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reclassify
Nearest frequency peer: reclassify (-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 “recreationally”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recapitulat…
recapitulation
26,424 corpus weight
- recce
recce
26,423 corpus weight
- reclassify
reclassify
26,422 corpus weight
- recreationa…
recreationally
26,421 corpus weight
- redskin
redskin
26,419 corpus weight
- Rendon
Rendon
26,417 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “recreationally” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recreationally |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #73,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “recreationally” in English
Rare enough to double-check
recreationally is uncommon English at frequency #73,580 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a recreational manner, for recreation, for fun or entertainment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for recreationally in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From recreational + -ly. The correct English form is recreationally, spelled R-E-C-R-E-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a recreational manner, for recreation, for fun or entertainment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recreationally appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Baseline plasma nitrate levels were similar to those of young recreationally active individuals[6, 34 ] and, whilst we were concerned that possible age related changes in digestion, enterosalivary circulation and oral commensal bacteria might impair nitrate delivery, the plasma nitrate levels achieved exceeded even those achieved by administration of a hi…
Etymology
From recreational + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).