# fully

> English word · Adverb · IPA /ˈfʊli/ · frequency rank #1,366

## Definitions
1. In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
2. Used as an intensifier for a quantity.
3. Exactly, equally.
4. So as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.
5. Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.

## Etymology
From Middle English fully, fulliche, volliche, from Old English fullīċe (“fully”), equivalent to full + -ly. Compare German völlig (“fully”), Swedish fullt (“fully”).

## Easily confused with
- **fury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fully-vs-fury)
- **funny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fully-vs-funny)
- **fuzzy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fully-vs-fuzzy)
- **funky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fully-vs-funky)
- **furry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fully-vs-furry)
- **fussy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fully-vs-fussy)
- **fly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fly-vs-fully)
- **full** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/full-vs-fully)
- **fall** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fall-vs-fully)
- **fell** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fell-vs-fully)
- **fuel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuel-vs-fully)
- **fill** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fill-vs-fully)
- **falls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/falls-vs-fully)
- **fills** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fills-vs-fully)
- **foley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foley-vs-fully)
- **fella** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fella-vs-fully)
- **folly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/folly-vs-fully)
- **filly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/filly-vs-fully)
- **Fells** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fells-vs-fully)
- **feely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feely-vs-fully)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ffully`, `fluly`, `fullyy`, `fuly`, `fulyl`, `uflly`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fully