alertly
adverb
alertly is an adverb meaning “In an alert manner; with alertness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-E-R-T-L-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does alertly mean?
adverb
- 1
In an alert manner; with alertness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce alertly?
Alertly has 3 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).
Forms of alertly
- more alertly comparative
- most alertly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is alertly?
Alertly appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).
Alertly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense with alertness:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | alertamente |
| Spanish | con listeza, alerta, alertamente |
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 alertly come from?
From alert + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).