thankfully
"thankfully" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thankfully” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,676
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a thankful manner; giving thanks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thankfully · thankfully · English
thankfully · rank #9,676 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,676
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH sufficiently
Nearest frequency peer: sufficiently (-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 “thankfully”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sticky
sticky
90,328 corpus weight
- sting
sting
90,327 corpus weight
- sufficiently
sufficiently
90,326 corpus weight
- thankfully
thankfully
90,325 corpus weight
- tick
tick
90,323 corpus weight
- traced
traced
90,322 corpus weight
What this shows “thankfully” 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 | thankfully |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “thankfully”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around thankfully, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #9,676 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for thankfully, with forms such as "htankfully", "tahnkfully", and "thaknfully". 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, "thankful", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English thankfully, thankefully, þonkfulliche, from Old English þancfullīċe, equivalent to thankful + -ly. The correct English form is thankfully, spelled T-H-A-N-K-F-U-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a thankful manner; giving thanks.
- 2fortunately, gratefully.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thankfully appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gratiano: […]I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth That which I owe is lost; but if you please To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to find both, Or bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
I immediately offered my assistance to the unhappy person, who thankfully accepted it, and, putting himself under my conduct, begged me to convey him to some tavern, where he might send for a surgeon […]
Etymology
From Middle English thankfully, thankefully, þonkfulliche, from Old English þancfullīċe, equivalent to thankful + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htankfully
- tahnkfully
- thaknfully
- thanfkully
- thankffully
- thankfluly
- thankfullyy
- thankfuly
- thankfulyl
- thankkfully
- thankuflly
- thannkfully
- thhankfully
- thnakfully
- tthankfully
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thankfully - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).