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hellishly

adverb

hellishly is spelled H-E-L-L-I-S-H-L-Y: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, hellishly means “In a hellish manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hellishly?

Letters9: H-E-L-L-I-S-H-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is hellishly?

Hellishly appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).

Forms of hellishly

  • more hellishly comparative
  • most hellishly superlative

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

What does hellishly mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    In a hellish manner.

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

Hellishly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in a hellish manner:

LanguageWords
Spanishmalvadamente

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 hellishly come from?

From hellish + -ly.

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

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