saintly
/ˈseɪntli/
"saintly" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“saintly” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,395
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike.
Corpus desk
Index EN-saintly · saintly · English
saintly · rank #42,395 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,395
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sadat
Nearest frequency peer: Sadat (-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 “saintly”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ruinous
ruinous
57,608 corpus weight
- Sadat
Sadat
57,607 corpus weight
- saintly
saintly
57,606 corpus weight
- scalability
scalability
57,604 corpus weight
- Schindler
Schindler
57,603 corpus weight
- scuttle
scuttle
57,602 corpus weight
What this shows “saintly” 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 | saintly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈseɪntli/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “saintly”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around saintly (IPA /ˈseɪntli/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,395 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for saintly, with forms such as "asintly", "sainlty", and "sainntly". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "saints", "singly", "swiftly", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English *saintli (suggested by seyntly (adverb)), equivalent to saint + -ly. Compare saintlike. The correct English form is saintly, spelled S-A-I-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saintly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sophie led a saintly life.
Since my sother is nothing short of saintly, she fetches me daily from work and transports me here and there.
Etymology
From Middle English *saintli (suggested by seyntly (adverb)), equivalent to saint + -ly. Compare saintlike.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asintly
- sainlty
- sainntly
- saintlly
- saintlyy
- sainttly
- saintyl
- saitnly
- sanitly
- siantly
- ssaintly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saintly - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saintly", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).