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indiscriminately

adverb

indiscriminately is spelled I-N-D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is indiscriminantly: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Indiscriminately is an adverb meaning “In an indiscriminate manner”.

How many letters and syllables are in indiscriminately?

Letters16: I-N-D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y
Syllables6 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, indiscriminantly, about 20 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 indiscriminately?

Indiscriminately is spelled I-N-D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for indiscriminately in either form.

indiscriminatelythe right spelling350 searches a month
indiscriminantlyn in place of t, t in place of e20 searches a month

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 indiscriminately?

Indiscriminately appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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 indiscriminately?

    Indiscriminately has 6 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).

    Forms of indiscriminately

    • more indiscriminately comparative
    • most indiscriminately superlative

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

    What does indiscriminately mean?

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

    adverb

    1. 1

      In an indiscriminate manner.

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

    Indiscriminately in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense in an indiscriminate manner:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchindiscriminément, indistinctement, sans distinction, à tort et à travers
    Germanwahllos, willkürlich, unkritisch, querbeet, ohne Unterschied
    Portugueseindiscriminadamente
    Spanishindiscriminadamente

    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 indiscriminately come from?

    From indiscriminate + -ly.

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

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