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capably

adverb

capably is spelled C-A-P-A-B-L-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, capably means “In a capable manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in capably?

Letters7: C-A-P-A-B-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 81,375th 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 capably?

Capably appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th 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 capably?

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

Forms of capably

  • more capably comparative
  • most capably superlative

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

What does capably mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In a capable manner.

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

Where does capably come from?

From capable + -ly.

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

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