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analogously

/əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs.li/adverb

analogously is spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-O-U-S-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is analagously: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Analogously is an adverb meaning “In an analogous manner; in a manner which evokes analogy”.

How many letters and syllables are in analogously?

Letters11: A-N-A-L-O-G-O-U-S-L-Y
Syllables5 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, analagously, 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 analogously?

Analogously is spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-O-U-S-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for analogously in either form.

analogouslythe right spelling110 searches a month
analagouslya in place of o10 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 analogously?

Analogously appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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 analogously?

  • US /əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs.li/

Analogously has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of analogously

  • more analogously comparative
  • most analogously superlative

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

What does analogously mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In an analogous manner; in a manner which evokes analogy.

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

Analogously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in an analogous manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchde façon analogue, analoguement
Portugueseanalogamente
Spanishanálogamente

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 analogously come from?

From analogous + -ly.

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

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