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fragmentarily

adverb

fragmentarily is an adverb meaning “In a fragmentary manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-A-R-I-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fragmentarily mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a fragmentary manner.

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

Forms of fragmentarily

  • more fragmentarily comparative
  • most fragmentarily superlative

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

How common is fragmentarily?

Fragmentarily appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 fragmentarily come from?

From fragmentary + -ly.

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