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imprecisely

adverb

imprecisely is spelled I-M-P-R-E-C-I-S-E-L-Y: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, imprecisely means “In an imprecise manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in imprecisely?

Letters11: I-M-P-R-E-C-I-S-E-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 imprecisely?

Imprecisely appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 imprecisely

  • more imprecisely comparative
  • most imprecisely superlative

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

What does imprecisely mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In an imprecise manner.

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

Imprecisely in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in an imprecise manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchimprécisément
Spanishimprecisamente

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 imprecisely come from?

From imprecise + -ly.

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

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