uncannily
/ʌŋˈkænɪli/
"uncannily" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uncannily” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,239 in English word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #78,239
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In an uncanny manner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uncannily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ʌŋˈkænɪli/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “uncannily” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for uncannily is 9 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʌŋˈkænɪli/. Corpus data places it at rank #78,239 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In an uncanny manner.".
uncannily doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 uncanny + -ly. The correct English form is uncannily, spelled U-N-C-A-N-N-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an uncanny manner.
Etymology
From uncanny + -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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Using “uncannily”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-N-C-A-N-N-I-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.