Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

encouragingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables
en-cour-ag-ing-ly
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an encouraging manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English encouraging Middle English -ly English -ly English encouragingly From encouraging + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more encouragingly (comparative) most encouragingly (superlative)

Questions

What does encouragingly mean?
In an encouraging manner.
Where does encouragingly come from?
Etymology tree English encouraging Middle English -ly English -ly English encouragingly From encouraging + -ly.

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