scarily
"scarily" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scarily” is uncommon English (frequency #67,022 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,022
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a scary manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scarily · scarily · English
scarily · rank #67,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,022
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sched
Nearest frequency peer: sched (+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 “scarily”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sauk
Sauk
32,982 corpus weight
- scarily
scarily
32,979 corpus weight
- sched
sched
32,978 corpus weight
- schizoid
schizoid
32,977 corpus weight
- Schoen
Schoen
32,976 corpus weight
- Scientologi…
Scientologist
32,974 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scarily” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scarily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scarily” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scarily is uncommon English at frequency #67,022 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a scary manner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for scarily in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scary + -ly. The correct English form is scarily, spelled S-C-A-R-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a scary manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scarily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano.
Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.
Etymology
From scary + -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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