Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unofficially

/ənəfˈɪʃəli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables: un-of-fi-cial-ly
IPA: /ənəfˈɪʃəli/

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a way that is not official; in an unofficial manner.

Example Sentences

"A one-pot meal, cachupa, is unofficially the national dish of Cape Verde, a drought-stricken archipelago off the western bulge of Africa. The dish is chock-full of cassava, seasoned sausages, corn and potatoes."

Etymology

From unofficial + -ly or un- + officially.

Inflected Forms

more unofficially (comparative) most unofficially (superlative)

Synonyms

on the side

Rhymes With

officially initially artificially judicially beneficially

Questions

How do you pronounce unofficially?: The recorded pronunciation is /ənəfˈɪʃəli/.
What does unofficially mean?: In a way that is not official; in an unofficial manner.
Where does unofficially come from?: From unofficial + -ly or un- + officially.

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