Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

distractingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English

Syllables
dis-tract-ing-ly
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a distracting manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English distracting Middle English -ly English -ly English distractingly From distracting + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more distractingly (comparative) most distractingly (superlative)

Questions

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

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