Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

canonically

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: canon-i-cal-ly
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a canonical manner.

Example Sentences

"For example, once the child is able to parse (i.e. grammatically analyse) an adult utterance such as Help Daddy and knows that it contains a verb phrase comprising the head verb help and its complement Daddy, then (on the assumption that the language faculty specifies that all heads of a given type behave uniformly with regard to whether they are positioned before or after their complements), the child will automatically know that all verbs in English are canonically (i.e. normally) positioned before their complements."

Etymology

Etymology tree English canonical Middle English -ly English -ly English canonically From canonical + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more canonically (comparative) most canonically (superlative)

Questions

What does canonically mean?: In a canonical manner.
Where does canonically come from?: Etymology tree English canonical Middle English -ly English -ly English canonically From canonical + -ly.

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