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chivalrously

/ˈʃɪvəlɹəs.li/adverb

chivalrously is spelled C-H-I-V-A-L-R-O-U-S-L-Y: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, chivalrously means “In a chivalrous manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in chivalrously?

Letters12: C-H-I-V-A-L-R-O-U-S-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th 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 chivalrously?

Chivalrously appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 chivalrously?

  • US /ˈʃɪvəlɹəs.li/

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

Forms of chivalrously

  • more chivalrously comparative
  • most chivalrously superlative

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

What does chivalrously mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In a chivalrous manner.

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

Chivalrously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in a chivalrous manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchchevaleresquement

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 chivalrously come from?

From chivalrous + -ly.

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

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