individually
/ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/adverb
individually is spelled I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is individualy: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Individually is an adverb meaning “As individuals, separately, independently”.
How many letters and syllables are in individually?
| Letters | 12: I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, individualy, about 50 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 individually?
Individually is spelled I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for individually 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 individually?
Individually appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 individually?
- /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/
- /ˌɪndə-/
Individually 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-individually.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does individually mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
As individuals, separately, independently.
individually assessed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Individually in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense separately, independently:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | individuellement |
| German | individuell, einzeln |
| Portuguese | individualmente |
| Spanish | individualmente |
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 individually come from?
From individual + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).