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contextually

adverb

contextually is spelled C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-A-L-L-Y: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, contextually means “In a contextual manner; with reference to context” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in contextually?

Letters12: C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-A-L-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th 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 contextually?

Contextually appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th 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).

Forms of contextually

  • more contextually comparative
  • most contextually superlative

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

What does contextually mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In a contextual manner; with reference to context.

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

Contextually in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense In a contextual manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchcontextuellement

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 contextually come from?

From contextual + -ly.

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

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