efficiently
adverb
efficiently is spelled E-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is efficently: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Efficiently is an adverb meaning “In an efficient manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in efficiently?
| Letters | 11: E-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, efficently, about 220 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 efficiently?
Efficiently is spelled E-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T-L-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for efficiently 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 efficiently?
Efficiently appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th 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 efficiently?
Efficiently has 4 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).
Forms of efficiently
- more efficiently comparative
- most efficiently superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does efficiently mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In an efficient manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Efficiently in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an efficient manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | efficacement |
| German | effizient |
| Spanish | eficientemente |
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 efficiently come from?
From efficient + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).