immediately
im·me·di·ate·ly/ɪˈmi.di.ɪt.li/adverb, conjunction
immediately is spelled I-M-M-E-D-I-A-T-E-L-Y, 5 syllables: im·me·di·ate·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is immediatly: about 780 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Immediately is an adverb meaning “In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay”.
How many letters and syllables are in immediately?
| Letters | 11: I-M-M-E-D-I-A-T-E-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: im·me·di·ate·ly |
| In writing | 95 times per million words; the 1,125th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 9; the most searched, immediatly, about 780 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell immediately?
Immediately is spelled I-M-M-E-D-I-A-T-E-L-Y. 9 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for immediately in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is immediately?
Immediately appears 95 times per million words in written English, the 1,125th 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).
How do you pronounce immediately?
- UK /ɪˈmiː.di.ət.li/
- US /ɪˈmi.di.ɪt.li/
- US /əˈmi.di.ət.li/
Immediately has 5 syllables, split im·me·di·ate·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-immediately.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does immediately mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
I hope we can begin immediately.
- 2
Without any intervening time or space.
conjunction
- 1
As soon as, the moment that.
Near-synonym: once
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Immediately in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an immediate manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | immédiatement, tout de suite, aussitôt |
| German | sofort, alsbald, unverzüglich, auf der Stelle, umgehend |
| Portuguese | imediatamente |
| Spanish | inmediatamente, de inmediato, ya, sin demora, enseguida, acto seguido |
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 immediately come from?
From Middle English immediatly, equivalent to immediate + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).