easily
/ˈi.zɪ.li/adverb
easily is spelled E-A-S-I-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is easly: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Easily is an adverb meaning “Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety”.
How many letters and syllables are in easily?
| Letters | 6: E-A-S-I-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 81 times per million words; the 1,302nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, easly, about 90 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 easily?
Easily is spelled E-A-S-I-L-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for easily 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 easily?
Easily appears 81 times per million words in written English, the 1,302nd 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 easily?
- UK /ˈiː.zɪ.li/
- UK /ˈiːz.li/
- US /ˈi.zɪ.li/
Easily 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-easily.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of easily
- easilier comparative
- more easily comparative
- easiliest superlative
- most easily superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does easily mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
- 2
Without difficulty.
Individuals without a family network are easily controlled.
- 3
colloquialAbsolutely, without question.
This is easily the best meal I have eaten.
- 4
More quickly or likely than is usual or expected.
not easily offended
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Easily in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | tranquilamente , facilmente , sem dúvida |
| French | facilement |
| German | leicht |
| Spanish | fácilmente, aína, aínas, sobrado, sobradamente |
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 easily come from?
From Middle English esiliche, equivalent to easy + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).