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articulately

/ɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət.li/adverb

articulately is spelled A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-T-E-L-Y: 12 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, articulately means “In an articulate manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in articulately?

Letters12: A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-T-E-L-Y
Syllables5 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th 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 articulately?

Articulately appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 articulately?

  • UK /ɑːˈtɪk.jə.lət.li/
  • US /ɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lət.li/

Articulately has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of articulately

  • more articulately comparative
  • most articulately superlative

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

What does articulately mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In an articulate manner.

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

Articulately in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in an articulate manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchéloquemment, articulément
Portuguesearticuladamente
Spanisharticuladamente

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 articulately come from?

From articulate + -ly.

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

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