wordlessly
"wordlessly" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wordlessly” is uncommon English (frequency #92,255 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,255
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without words.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wordlessly · wordlessly · English
wordlessly · rank #92,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,255
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH workaday
Nearest frequency peer: workaday (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “wordlessly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Willetts
Willetts
7,755 corpus weight
- wisecracking
wisecracking
7,751 corpus weight
- wordlessly
wordlessly
7,746 corpus weight
- workaday
workaday
7,745 corpus weight
- wormy
wormy
7,744 corpus weight
- Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer
7,742 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wordlessly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wordlessly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wordlessly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wordlessly is uncommon English at frequency #92,255 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Without words.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wordlessly, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wordless + -ly. The correct English form is wordlessly, spelled W-O-R-D-L-E-S-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Without words.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wordlessly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough wordlessly conveys a slowly creeping moment of profound existential despair that crushes your heart with its bleakness.
Etymology
From wordless + -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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