tenaciously
/təˈneɪʃəsli/
"tenaciously" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tenaciously” is uncommon English (frequency #76,391 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,391
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a tenacious manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tenaciously · tenaciously · English
tenaciously · rank #76,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,391
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tengu
Nearest frequency peer: tengu (+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 “tenaciously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- technicals
technicals
23,614 corpus weight
- Tejada
Tejada
23,613 corpus weight
- tenaciously
tenaciously
23,610 corpus weight
- tengu
tengu
23,609 corpus weight
- tenon
tenon
23,608 corpus weight
- Tewksbury
Tewksbury
23,607 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tenaciously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenaciously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /təˈneɪʃəsli/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tenaciously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tenaciously is uncommon English at frequency #76,391 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /təˈneɪʃəsli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a tenacious manner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tenaciously, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tenacious + -ly. The correct English form is tenaciously, spelled T-E-N-A-C-I-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a tenacious manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenaciously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He continued tenaciously, doggedly continuing over all obstacles.
[…] tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
Etymology
From tenacious + -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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