sleepily
"sleepily" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sleepily” is uncommon English (frequency #94,267 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,267
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a sleepy manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sleepily · sleepily · English
sleepily · rank #94,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,267
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sleaford
Nearest frequency peer: Sleaford (-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 “sleepily”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- skimping
skimping
5,738 corpus weight
- slake
slake
5,737 corpus weight
- Sleaford
Sleaford
5,735 corpus weight
- sleepily
sleepily
5,734 corpus weight
- smolder
smolder
5,731 corpus weight
- spatiotempo…
spatiotemporal
5,725 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sleepily” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sleepily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sleepily” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sleepily is uncommon English at frequency #94,267 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a sleepy manner.".
sleepily has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sleepy + -ly. The correct English form is sleepily, spelled S-L-E-E-P-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a sleepy manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sleepily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Igins was studying the habits of a capuchin caterpillar, that, like his betters, was sleepily eating his way through existence on the leaf of a cabbage in the garden […]
Lettie's eyes were scarcely open, but she answered sleepily, "Well, papa."
Etymology
From sleepy + -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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