canonically
adverb
canonically is an adverb meaning “In a canonical manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-N-O-N-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does canonically mean?
adverb
- 1
In a canonical manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce canonically?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-canonically.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of canonically
- more canonically comparative
- most canonically superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is canonically?
Canonically appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th 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).
Canonically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a canonical manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | canonialement, canoniquement |
| Portuguese | canonicamente |
| Spanish | canónicamente |
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 canonically come from?
From canonical + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).