luckily
/ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/adverb
luckily is spelled L-U-C-K-I-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is luckly: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Luckily is an adverb meaning “In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately”.
How many letters and syllables are in luckily?
| Letters | 7: L-U-C-K-I-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, luckly, about 80 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 luckily?
Luckily is spelled L-U-C-K-I-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for luckily 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 luckily?
Luckily appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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 luckily?
- US /ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/
- US /ˈlʌk.ə.li/
Luckily has 3 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)-Vininn126-luckily.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of luckily
- more luckily comparative
- most luckily superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does luckily mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.
They luckily escaped injury.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Luckily in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a lucky manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | heureusement |
| German | glücklicherweise, auf glückliche Weise, mit Glück, zum Glück |
| Portuguese | felizmente, por sorte |
| Spanish | afortunadamente, por suerte, por fortuna, dichosamente, menos mal |
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 luckily come from?
From lucky + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).