arithmetically
adverb
arithmetically is spelled A-R-I-T-H-M-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is arithmatically: 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. Arithmetically is an adverb meaning “In a way characterized by addition (of increments) rather than multiplication (by factors) or exponentiation…”.
How do you spell arithmetically?
Arithmetically is spelled A-R-I-T-H-M-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for arithmetically 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.
What does arithmetically mean?
adverb
- 1
In a way characterized by addition (of increments) rather than multiplication (by factors) or exponentiation (by exponents): by an arithmetic progression.
Over the past decade the business has grown arithmetically, which shows that it is serving a demand successfully; but because it has not grown exponentially, its growth is viewed by some investors as "not good enough."
- 2
In terms of arithmetic.
The two terms are arithmetically equivalent, but they are not equally intuitive regarding what phenomenon they represent in the real world.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce arithmetically?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-arithmetically.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of arithmetically
- more arithmetically comparative
- most arithmetically superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is arithmetically?
Arithmetically appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Arithmetically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense In an arithmetic / arithmetical manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | arithmétiquement |
| German | arithmetisch |
| Portuguese | aritmeticamente |
| Spanish | aritméticamente |
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 arithmetically come from?
From arithmetical + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).