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fatefully

/ˈfeɪtfəli/adverb

fatefully is an adverb meaning “In a fateful manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-T-E-F-U-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fatefully mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a fateful manner.

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

How do you pronounce fatefully?

  • /ˈfeɪtfəli/

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

Forms of fatefully

  • more fatefully comparative
  • most fatefully superlative

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

How common is fatefully?

Fatefully appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 fatefully come from?

From fateful + -ly.

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