tediously
"tediously" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tediously” is uncommon English (frequency #94,326 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,326
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a tedious or wearisome manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tediously · tediously · English
tediously · rank #94,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,326
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Teagan
Nearest frequency peer: Teagan (-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 “tediously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Teagan
Teagan
5,676 corpus weight
- tediously
tediously
5,675 corpus weight
- Teignmouth
Teignmouth
5,674 corpus weight
- temperament…
temperamentally
5,673 corpus weight
- territorial…
territoriality
5,671 corpus weight
- tetrahydroc…
tetrahydrocannabinol
5,670 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tediously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tediously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tediously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tediously is uncommon English at frequency #94,326 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a tedious or wearisome manner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tediously, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tedyously; equivalent to tedious + -ly. The correct English form is tediously, spelled T-E-D-I-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a tedious or wearisome manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tediously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode.
Etymology
From Middle English tedyously; equivalent to tedious + -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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