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anaerobically

adverb

anaerobically is spelled A-N-A-E-R-O-B-I-C-A-L-L-Y: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, anaerobically means “In an anaerobic manner; in a way that does not require oxygen. Generally used of metabolic processes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in anaerobically?

Letters13: A-N-A-E-R-O-B-I-C-A-L-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is anaerobically?

Anaerobically appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).

Forms of anaerobically

  • more anaerobically comparative
  • most anaerobically superlative

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

What does anaerobically mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In an anaerobic manner; in a way that does not require oxygen. Generally used of metabolic processes.

    Humans can metabolize both aerobically and anaerobically, the latter generally in high stress situations.

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

Anaerobically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense In an anaerobic manner:

LanguageWords
Portugueseanaerobicamente

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.

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