Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dependably

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English

Syllables
de-pend-ably
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a dependable manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English dependable Middle English -ly English -ly English dependably From dependable + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more dependably (comparative) most dependably (superlative)

Synonyms

faithfully reliably

Questions

What does dependably mean?
In a dependable manner.
Where does dependably come from?
Etymology tree English dependable Middle English -ly English -ly English dependably From dependable + -ly.

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