sneakily
"sneakily" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sneakily” is uncommon English (frequency #68,649 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,649
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a sneaky manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sneakily · sneakily · English
sneakily · rank #68,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,649
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH socked
Nearest frequency peer: socked (+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 “sneakily”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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skydiver
31,356 corpus weight
- smasher
smasher
31,355 corpus weight
- sneakily
sneakily
31,352 corpus weight
- socked
socked
31,351 corpus weight
- soled
soled
31,349 corpus weight
- Soraya
Soraya
31,347 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sneakily” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sneakily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sneakily” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sneakily is uncommon English at frequency #68,649 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a sneaky manner.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sneakily, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sneaky + -ly. The correct English form is sneakily, spelled S-N-E-A-K-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a sneaky manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sneakily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But on the occasions that he did do something actively nasty, he was satanically good at insinuating himself so sneakily into your most sensitive spots that if you did not know him well you could end up thinking you were being unfair to him when he annoyed you.
Etymology
From sneaky + -ly.
This word in other languages
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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