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breakingly

adverb

breakingly is spelled B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G-L-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, breakingly means “In a manner that breaks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in breakingly?

Letters10: B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th 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 breakingly?

Breakingly appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Forms of breakingly

  • more breakingly comparative
  • most breakingly superlative

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

What does breakingly mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In a manner that breaks.

    back-breakingly hard work

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

Where does breakingly come from?

From breaking + -ly.

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

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