Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

discretionarily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dis-cre-tionar-i-ly
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

At one's discretion.

Etymology

From discretionary + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more discretionarily (comparative) most discretionarily (superlative)

Questions

What does discretionarily mean?
At one's discretion.
Where does discretionarily come from?
From discretionary + -ly.

How to pronounce discretionarily

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