Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

not really

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.89 in modern English

Syllables
not re-al-ly
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

To a low degree, not particularly, not especially.

adv

Not actually (a hypothetical will not, in fact, come to pass), often rhetorical.

Example Sentences

Questions

What does not really mean?
To a low degree, not particularly, not especially.

How to pronounce not really

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