constantly
/ˈkɒnstəntli/adverb
constantly is spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is constanly: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Constantly is an adverb meaning “In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently”.
How many letters and syllables are in constantly?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 34 times per million words; the 2,831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, constanly, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell constantly?
Constantly is spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for constantly in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is constantly?
Constantly appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st 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 constantly?
- UK /ˈkɒnstəntli/
- US /ˈkɑnstənʔli/
Constantly has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-constantly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of constantly
- more constantly comparative
- most constantly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does constantly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
archaicWith steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.
Agrippa and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him […] not to offer violence unto himself, ‘with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it’; and so consta
- 2
In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently.
- 3
Recurring regularly.
I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets.
- 4
In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Constantly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | constamment , en boucle |
| German | ständig , regelmäßig , konstant |
| Portuguese | constantemente |
| Spanish | constantemente |
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 constantly come from?
From constant + -ly. Displaced native Old English singallīċe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).