unexplicably
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Uncommon form of inexplicably.
Example Sentences
- "[S]urely every encouragement ought to be given, and will be given to those professional men, or to any man who proves successful in throwing any light on this hitherto unexplicably dark and mysterious subject."
- "And all these fatal novelties, spring, as from their germ, from the appalling necessity, not yet explained, by which the General Assembly of 1838—[…]—suddenly perished; leaving about one-fourth part of itself, to be its very self; while the remaining three-fourths perishing—not only survived, unchanged, their own destruction; but belieing^([sic]) this terrible metamorphosis, outlived the entity into which they had been so unexplicably recreated!"
- "At midnight Bettina Rasmussen, a neighbor of Nicole’s, was walking with her husband, Sukru Boztepe, and a dog that their neighbor had found unexplicably wandering down the street with blood on its paws."
Etymology
From unexplicable + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more unexplicably (comparative)
most unexplicably (superlative)