verry
"verry" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“verry” is uncommon English (frequency #85,909 among 7,391 “V” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,909
- frequency rank, English
- 7,391
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of very.
Corpus desk
Index EN-verry · verry · English
verry · rank #85,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,909
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,391
- PHOTO-FINISH verifier
Nearest frequency peer: verifier (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “verry”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Vania
Vania
14,098 corpus weight
- Venda
Venda
14,095 corpus weight
- verifier
verifier
14,093 corpus weight
- verry
verry
14,092 corpus weight
- vetiver
vetiver
14,091 corpus weight
- viney
viney
14,086 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “verry” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “verry” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
verry is uncommon English at frequency #85,909 among 7,391 “V” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of very.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for verry in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is verry, spelled V-E-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of very.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 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.