tastefully
"tastefully" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tastefully” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,666
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a tasteful manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tastefully · tastefully · English
tastefully · rank #49,666 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,666
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tamales
Nearest frequency peer: tamales (-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 “tastefully”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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50,341 corpus weight
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Taf
50,338 corpus weight
- talkies
talkies
50,337 corpus weight
- tamales
tamales
50,336 corpus weight
- tastefully
tastefully
50,335 corpus weight
- teetering
teetering
50,331 corpus weight
What this shows “tastefully” 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 | tastefully |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tastefully”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around tastefully, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #49,666 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In a tasteful manner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for tastefully, with forms such as "atstefully", "tasetfully", and "tasstefully". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tasteful", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tasteful + -ly. The correct English form is tastefully, spelled T-A-S-T-E-F-U-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a tasteful manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tastefully appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.
Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.
Etymology
From tasteful + -ly.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atstefully
- tasetfully
- tasstefully
- tasteffully
- tastefluly
- tastefullyy
- tastefuly
- tastefulyl
- tasteuflly
- tastfeully
- tasttefully
- tatsefully
- tsatefully
- ttastefully
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tastefully - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).