rigorously
"rigorously" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rigorously” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,067
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a rigorous manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rigorously · rigorously · English
rigorously · rank #29,067 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,067
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Roderick
Nearest frequency peer: Roderick (+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 “rigorously”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- reread
reread
70,937 corpus weight
- revisiting
revisiting
70,936 corpus weight
- rigorously
rigorously
70,934 corpus weight
- Roderick
Roderick
70,933 corpus weight
- roost
roost
70,931 corpus weight
- Roswell
Roswell
70,930 corpus weight
What this shows “rigorously” 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 | rigorously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rigorously”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around rigorously, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #29,067 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In a rigorous manner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for rigorously, with forms such as "irgorously", "rgiorously", and "riggorously". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "rigorous", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rigorous + -ly. The correct English form is rigorously, spelled R-I-G-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a rigorous manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rigorously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical cau…
Like all the examiners, Gupta was rigorously trained by four sighted trainers who taught her about the female body, in particular the anatomy of the breast.
Etymology
From rigorous + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irgorously
- rgiorously
- riggorously
- rigoorusly
- rigorosuly
- rigoroulsy
- rigorouslly
- rigorouslyy
- rigoroussly
- rigorousyl
- rigorrously
- rigoruosly
- rigroously
- riogrously
- rrigorously
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rigorously - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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