explicitly
adverb
explicitly is spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is explicity: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Explicitly is an adverb meaning “In an explicit manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in explicitly?
| Letters | 10: E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.1 times per million words; the 7,553rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, explicity, about 160 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 explicitly?
Explicitly is spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T-L-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for explicitly 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 explicitly?
Explicitly appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd 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 explicitly?
- US
Explicitly 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). Recordings: En-us-explicitly.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of explicitly
- more explicitly comparative
- most explicitly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does explicitly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In an explicit manner.
The fifth amendment to the United States constitution provides explicitly for the protection of private property.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Explicitly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an explicit manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | explicitement |
| German | ausdrücklich |
| Portuguese | explicitamente |
| Spanish | explícitamente, rotundamente |
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 explicitly come from?
From explicit + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).