recently
/ˈɹi.sənt.li/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants."
- "The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise."
- "The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail."
- "I haven't been sleeping well recently."
- "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion.""
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹi.sənt.li/
- British English: /ˈɹiːsənt.li/
Inflected Forms
more recently (comparative)
most recently (superlative)