miserably
adverb
miserably is spelled M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is miserabley: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Miserably is an adverb meaning “In a miserable manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in miserably?
| Letters | 9: M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 23,253rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, miserabley, about 10 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 miserably?
Miserably is spelled M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for miserably 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 miserably?
Miserably appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd 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 miserably?
Miserably 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-miserably.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of miserably
- more miserably comparative
- most miserably superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does miserably mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a miserable manner.
fail miserably
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Miserably in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a miserable manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | misérablement, minablement |
| Portuguese | miseravelmente |
| Spanish | miserablemente |
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 miserably come from?
From Middle English myserablie; equivalent to miserable + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).