continuously
con·tin·u·ous·ly/kənˈtɪnjuəsli/adverb
continuously is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O-U-S-L-Y, 5 syllables: con·tin·u·ous·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is continuosly: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Continuously is an adverb meaning “Without pause”.
How many letters and syllables are in continuously?
| Letters | 12: C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O-U-S-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: con·tin·u·ous·ly |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, continuosly, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 continuously?
Continuously is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O-U-S-L-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 continuously?
Continuously appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th 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 continuously?
- /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
Continuously has 5 syllables, split con·tin·u·ous·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-continuously.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does continuously mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Without pause.
The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Continuously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense without pause:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | continuellement |
| German | ständig, ununterbrochen, andauernd, kontinuierlich |
| Portuguese | continuamente |
| Spanish | continuadamente, continuamente, de continuo |
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 continuously come from?
From continuous + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).