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fancily

adverb

fancily is an adverb meaning “In a fancy manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-C-I-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fancily mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a fancy manner

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fancily

  • more fancily comparative
  • most fancily superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fancily?

Fancily appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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 fancily come from?

From fancy + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).