fraternally
adverb
fraternally is an adverb meaning “In a fraternal manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fraternally mean?
adverb
- 1
In a fraternal manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fraternally
- more fraternally comparative
- most fraternally superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fraternally?
Fraternally appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).
Fraternally in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a fraternal manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fraternellement |
| German | brüderlich |
| Spanish | fraternalmente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fraternally come from?
From fraternal + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).