teasingly
"teasingly" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teasingly” is uncommon English (frequency #86,836 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,836
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a teasing way or manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-teasingly · teasingly · English
teasingly · rank #86,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,836
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tebbit
Nearest frequency peer: Tebbit (+1 rank slots)
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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 “teasingly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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13,168 corpus weight
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Tarzana
13,167 corpus weight
- teasingly
teasingly
13,165 corpus weight
- Tebbit
Tebbit
13,164 corpus weight
- technocracy
technocracy
13,163 corpus weight
- technocrat
technocrat
13,162 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “teasingly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teasingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “teasingly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
teasingly is uncommon English at frequency #86,836 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a teasing way or manner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for teasingly in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From teasing + -ly. The correct English form is teasingly, spelled T-E-A-S-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a teasing way or manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teasingly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One cannot help but notice a teasingly elusive air about her, as if she were a butterfly that refused to light and fluttered just out of reach of its would-be captor.
Etymology
From teasing + -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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