shakily
"shakily" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shakily” is uncommon English (frequency #79,962 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,962
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a shaky manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shakily · shakily · English
shakily · rank #79,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,962
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sharad
Nearest frequency peer: Sharad (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shakily”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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sendoff
20,043 corpus weight
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Sengupta
20,042 corpus weight
- shakily
shakily
20,039 corpus weight
- Sharad
Sharad
20,038 corpus weight
- Shaul
Shaul
20,037 corpus weight
- Shinde
Shinde
20,035 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shakily” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shakily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shakily” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shakily is uncommon English at frequency #79,962 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a shaky manner.".
shakily has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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 shaky + -ly. The correct English form is shakily, spelled S-H-A-K-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a shaky manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shakily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Bloody hell,” she moaned. “Bloody hell, bloody hell.” Though her hands were trembling, she managed to reload the crossbow just as Sue had told her; then she began to shakily run towards where she thought the sound had come from.
Etymology
From shaky + -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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.