accordingly
/əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/adverb
accordingly is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-I-N-G-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is acordingly: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 99 of all searches for the word. Accordingly is an adverb meaning “Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably”.
How many letters and syllables are in accordingly?
| Letters | 11: A-C-C-O-R-D-I-N-G-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acordingly, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell accordingly?
Accordingly is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-I-N-G-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 99 of the searches for accordingly in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is accordingly?
Accordingly appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce accordingly?
- US /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/
- UK /əˈkɔː(ɹ).dɪŋ.li/
Accordingly has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-accordingly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accordingly
- more accordingly comparative
- most accordingly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accordingly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably.
He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.
- 2
In natural sequence; consequently; so.
Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accordingly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | en conséquence, conséquemment |
| German | dementsprechend , logischerweise |
| Portuguese | correspondentemente, conformemente, acordadamente , consequentemente |
| Spanish | en consecuencia, como corresponde, acordemente, según, según y como, según y conforme |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does accordingly come from?
From Middle English acordingli, equivalent to according + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).