successfully
/səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
"successfully" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“successfully” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,337
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-successfully · successfully · English
successfully · rank #3,337 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #3,337
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spoken
Nearest frequency peer: spoken (-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 “successfully”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- select
select
96,667 corpus weight
- silent
silent
96,666 corpus weight
- spoken
spoken
96,665 corpus weight
- successfully
successfully
96,664 corpus weight
- suffer
suffer
96,663 corpus weight
- temple
temple
96,662 corpus weight
What this shows “successfully” 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 | successfully |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “successfully”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around successfully (IPA /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #3,337 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In a successful manner; with success; without failing.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for successfully, with forms such as "scucessfully", "ssuccessfully", and "succesfsully". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "successful", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From successful + -ly. The correct English form is successfully, spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-F-U-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how successfully appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He successfully climbed the mountain.
They successfully completed their project together.
Etymology
From successful + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scucessfully
- ssuccessfully
- succesfsully
- succesfully
- successffully
- successfluly
- successfullyy
- successfuly
- successfulyl
- successuflly
- succsesfully
- sucecssfully
- sucessfully
- usccessfully
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of successfully - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "successfully", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).