successfully
/səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
Example Sentences
- "He successfully climbed the mountain."
- "They successfully completed their project together."
- "Traders have been successfully indoctrinated with the necessity of quick unloading - or else seeing their coal hauled away again - […]"
- "A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences."
Etymology
Etymology tree English successful Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English successfully From successful + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
- British English: /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
Inflected Forms
more successfully (comparative)
most successfully (superlative)