righteously
"righteously" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“righteously” is uncommon English (frequency #61,075 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,075
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a righteous manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-righteously · righteously · English
righteously · rank #61,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,075
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reynard
Nearest frequency peer: Reynard (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “righteously”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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38,929 corpus weight
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38,928 corpus weight
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38,927 corpus weight
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38,926 corpus weight
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38,925 corpus weight
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38,922 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “righteously” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | righteously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “righteously” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
righteously is uncommon English at frequency #61,075 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a righteous manner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for righteously, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rightwisly, from Old English rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous + -ly. The correct English form is righteously, spelled R-I-G-H-T-E-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a righteous manner.
Etymology
From Middle English rightwisly, from Old English rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous + -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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