# hotly

> English word · Adverb · frequency rank #31,602

## Definitions
1. With great amounts of heat.
2. In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently.

## Etymology
From Middle English *hotly, *hatliche, from Old English hātlīċe (“ardently, fervently”); equivalent to hot + -ly.

## Easily confused with
- **hoy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-hoy)
- **howl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-howl)
- **hots** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-hots)
- **howdy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-howdy)
- **howls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-howls)
- **Hoyle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-hoyle)
- **hourly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotly-vs-hourly)
- **hot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hot-vs-hotly)
- **hold** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hold-vs-hotly)
- **holy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/holy-vs-hotly)
- **hole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hole-vs-hotly)
- **holt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/holt-vs-hotly)
- **hola** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hola-vs-hotly)
- **holm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/holm-vs-hotly)
- **Holi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/holi-vs-hotly)
- **hotel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hotel-vs-hotly)
- **honey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/honey-vs-hotly)
- **hobby** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hobby-vs-hotly)
- **holly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/holly-vs-hotly)
- **horny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horny-vs-hotly)

## Common misspellings (8)
`hhotly`, `holty`, `hotlly`, `hotlyy`, `hottly`, `hotyl`, `htoly`, `ohtly`

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