incredibly
/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/adverb
incredibly is spelled I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is incredibley: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Incredibly is an adverb meaning “In an incredible manner; not to be believed”.
How many letters and syllables are in incredibly?
| Letters | 10: I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, incredibley, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 incredibly?
Incredibly is spelled I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for incredibly 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 incredibly?
Incredibly appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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 incredibly?
- /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
Incredibly has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-incredibly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of incredibly
- more incredibly comparative
- most incredibly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does incredibly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
- 2
To a great extent; extremely.
He was incredibly wealthy.
- 3
Used to note the surprising or hard-to-believe nature of what is being said and suggest that it is nevertheless true.
Incredibly, when he died they found he had left a million dollars to the Poetry Foundation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Incredibly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | incroyablement |
| Portuguese | incrivelmente |
| Spanish | increíblemente |
| German | unglaublich |
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 incredibly come from?
From incredible + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).