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amorously

/ˈæ.mə.ɹəs.li/adverb

amorously is spelled A-M-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is amourously: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Amorously is an adverb meaning “In an amorous or loving manner”.

How many letters and syllables are in amorously?

Letters9: A-M-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, amourously, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 amorously?

Amorously is spelled A-M-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for amorously in either form.

amorouslythe right spelling40 searches a month
amourouslyan extra u10 searches a month

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 amorously?

Amorously appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 amorously?

  • /ˈæ.mə.ɹəs.li/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-amorously.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of amorously

  • more amorously comparative
  • most amorously superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does amorously mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    In an amorous or loving manner.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Amorously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in an amorous manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchamoureusement
Portugueseamorosamente
Spanishcariñosamente, amorosamente

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 amorously come from?

Inherited from Middle English amorously, amerously; equivalent to amorous + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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