Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spirally

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables: spi-ral-ly
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a spiral fashion.

Example Sentences

"The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other."
"a spirally grooved surface"

Etymology

Etymology tree English spiral Middle English -ly English -ly English spirally From spiral + -ly.

Questions

What does spirally mean?: In a spiral fashion.
Where does spirally come from?: Etymology tree English spiral Middle English -ly English -ly English spirally From spiral + -ly.

How to pronounce spirally

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