automatically
au·to·mat·ic·al·ly/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)li/adverb
automatically is spelled A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y, 6 syllables: au·to·mat·ic·al·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is automaticly: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Automatically is an adverb meaning “In an automatic manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in automatically?
| Letters | 13: A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6: au·to·mat·ic·al·ly |
| In writing | 33 times per million words; the 2,888th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, automaticly, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell automatically?
Automatically is spelled A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for automatically 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 automatically?
Automatically appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th 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 automatically?
- UK /ˈɔːtəʊˌmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)li/
- UK /ˈɔːtəˌmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)i/
- US /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)li/
Automatically has 6 syllables, split au·to·mat·ic·al·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-automatically.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Qwertygiy-automatically.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with automatically?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as automatically from its last stressed vowel (/ætɪkli/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of automatically
- more automatically comparative
- most automatically superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does automatically mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In an automatic manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Automatically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense In an automatic manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | automatiquement |
| German | automatisch, von selbst |
| Portuguese | automaticamente |
| Spanish | automáticamente, solo |
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.