weatherly
"weatherly" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“weatherly” is uncommon English (frequency #81,022 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,022
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Able to sail close to the wind with little leeway.
Corpus desk
Index EN-weatherly · weatherly · English
weatherly · rank #81,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,022
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wellhead
Nearest frequency peer: wellhead (+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 “weatherly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- virago
virago
18,990 corpus weight
- weatherly
weatherly
18,979 corpus weight
- wellhead
wellhead
18,977 corpus weight
- wheezy
wheezy
18,973 corpus weight
- Wirtz
Wirtz
18,969 corpus weight
- Wistar
Wistar
18,968 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “weatherly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weatherly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “weatherly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
weatherly is uncommon English at frequency #81,022 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Able to sail close to the wind with little leeway.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for weatherly, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 weather (“direction from which the wind blows”) + -ly (“characteristic of”). The correct English form is weatherly, spelled W-E-A-T-H-E-R-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Able to sail close to the wind with little leeway.
Etymology
From weather (“direction from which the wind blows”) + -ly (“characteristic of”).
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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