capitally
adverb
capitally is an adverb meaning “Chiefly; principally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does capitally mean?
adverb
- 1
Chiefly; principally.
- 2
datedExcellently.
We enjoyed ourselves capitally.
- 3
By capital punishment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce capitally?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-capitally.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of capitally
- more capitally comparative
- most capitally superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is capitally?
Capitally appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Where does capitally come from?
From capital + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).