focally
adverb
focally is an adverb meaning “With respect to a focus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does focally mean?
adverb
- 1
With respect to a focus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of focally
- more focally comparative
- most focally superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is focally?
Focally appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 focally come from?
From focal + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).