vertically
/ˈvɝ.tɪ.kəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This story needs to be read vertically to be understood correctly."
- "The church stands in a churchyard so steep that it would seem that some of the inhabitants must have been buried vertically; there is an odd monument by the door, shaped like a coffin standing upon lion's feet."
- "Accumulation of the dye followed orthostichous patterns wherein the dye tended to accumulate in half of each leaf not vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 1, 2, and 4), and in the whole of each leaf vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 3 and 5)."
Etymology
Etymology tree English vertical 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 vertically From vertical + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɝ.tɪ.kəli/
- British English: /ˈvɜː.tɪ.kl̩i/
Inflected Forms
more vertically (comparative)
most vertically (superlative)