unpleasantly
"unpleasantly" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unpleasantly” is uncommon English (frequency #64,096 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,096
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In an unpleasant manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unpleasantly · unpleasantly · English
unpleasantly · rank #64,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,096
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH Uruk
Nearest frequency peer: Uruk (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “unpleasantly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unapproacha…
unapproachable
35,912 corpus weight
- unbeliever
unbeliever
35,911 corpus weight
- undefended
undefended
35,909 corpus weight
- unimaginably
unimaginably
35,908 corpus weight
- unpleasantly
unpleasantly
35,905 corpus weight
- Uruk
Uruk
35,903 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “unpleasantly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unpleasantly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “unpleasantly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
unpleasantly is uncommon English at frequency #64,096 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In an unpleasant manner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for unpleasantly in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From unpleasant + -ly. The correct English form is unpleasantly, spelled U-N-P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In an unpleasant manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unpleasantly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.
Etymology
From unpleasant + -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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