Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

randomly

/ˈɹændm̩li/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables: ran-dom-ly
IPA: /ˈɹændm̩li/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a random manner.

adv

By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.

Example Sentences

"I just randomly remembered this dream from 2 years ago."
"It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner."
"Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset."
"When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number."

Etymology

From random + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more randomly (comparative) most randomly (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonrandomly pseudorandomly quasirandomly semirandomly

Synonyms

indiscriminately haphazardly willy-nilly arbitrarily at random every which way

Questions

How do you pronounce randomly?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹændm̩li/.
What does randomly mean?: In a random manner.
Where does randomly come from?: From random + -ly.

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