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frenetically

adverb

frenetically is an adverb meaning “In a frenetic manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-N-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frenetically mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a frenetic manner

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

Forms of frenetically

  • more frenetically comparative
  • most frenetically superlative

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

How common is frenetically?

Frenetically appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

Frenetically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in a frenetic manner:

LanguageWords
Portuguesefreneticamente
Spanishfrenéticamente

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 frenetically come from?

From frenetic + -ally.

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