arbitrarily
adverb
arbitrarily is spelled A-R-B-I-T-R-A-R-I-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is arbitarily: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 38 of all searches for the word. Arbitrarily is an adverb meaning “In an arbitrary manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in arbitrarily?
| Letters | 11: A-R-B-I-T-R-A-R-I-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, arbitarily, 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 arbitrarily?
Arbitrarily is spelled A-R-B-I-T-R-A-R-I-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for arbitrarily 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 arbitrarily?
Arbitrarily appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 arbitrarily?
- US
Arbitrarily has 5 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-arbitrarily.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of arbitrarily
- more arbitrarily comparative
- most arbitrarily superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does arbitrarily mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In an arbitrary manner.
The winner was chosen arbitrarily.
- 2
To an arbitrary degree.
an arbitrarily large number
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Arbitrarily in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an arbitrary manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | arbitrairement |
| German | beliebig |
| Portuguese | arbitrariamente |
| Spanish | arbitrariamente, a dedo |
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 arbitrarily come from?
From arbitrary + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).