facilely
/ˈfæs.aɪl.li/adverb
facilely is an adverb meaning “In a facile manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-I-L-E-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does facilely mean?
adverb
- 1
In a facile manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce facilely?
- /ˈfæs.aɪl.li/
- /ˈfæs.ə(l).li/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of facilely
- more facilely comparative
- most facilely superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facilely?
Facilely appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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).
Where does facilely come from?
From facile + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).