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autonomously

adverb

autonomously is spelled A-U-T-O-N-O-M-O-U-S-L-Y: 12 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, autonomously means “In an autonomous or self-governing manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in autonomously?

Letters12: A-U-T-O-N-O-M-O-U-S-L-Y
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 44,767th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is autonomously?

Autonomously appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th 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 autonomously?

    Autonomously 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).

    Forms of autonomously

    • more autonomously comparative
    • most autonomously superlative

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

    What does autonomously mean?

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

    adverb

    1. 1

      In an autonomous or self-governing manner.

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

    Autonomously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense In an autonomous manner:

    LanguageWords
    Portugueseautonomamente
    Spanishautónomamente

    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.

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