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literately

adverb

literately is spelled L-I-T-E-R-A-T-E-L-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, literately means “In the way of one who is literate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in literately?

Letters10: L-I-T-E-R-A-T-E-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th 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 literately?

Literately appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 literately

  • more literately comparative
  • most literately superlative

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

What does literately mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In the way of one who is literate.

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

Where does literately come from?

From literate + -ly.

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

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