touchingly
"touchingly" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“touchingly” is uncommon English (frequency #97,637 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,637
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In a touching manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-touchingly · touchingly · English
touchingly · rank #97,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,637
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,828
- PHOTO-FINISH topi
Nearest frequency peer: topi (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “touchingly”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tolu
tolu
2,369 corpus weight
- topi
topi
2,366 corpus weight
- touchingly
touchingly
2,364 corpus weight
- tr00
tr00
2,361 corpus weight
- Trachtenberg
Trachtenberg
2,360 corpus weight
- tractate
tractate
2,359 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “touchingly” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touchingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “touchingly” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
touchingly is uncommon English at frequency #97,637 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a touching manner.".
touchingly has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From touching + -ly. The correct English form is touchingly, spelled T-O-U-C-H-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a touching manner.
Etymology
From touching + -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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.