necessarily
/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/adverb
necessarily is spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-I-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is neccesarily: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Necessarily is an adverb meaning “Inevitably; of necessity”.
How many letters and syllables are in necessarily?
| Letters | 11: N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-I-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, neccesarily, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell necessarily?
Necessarily is spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-I-L-Y. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for necessarily 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 necessarily?
Necessarily appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,114th 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 necessarily?
- UK /ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ɹɪ.li/
- UK /ˈnɛs.ə.sɛɹ.li/
- US /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/
Necessarily has 5 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: En-us-necessarily.ogg, Necessarily_(Standard_British,_1).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with necessarily?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as necessarily from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹəli/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of necessarily
- more necessarily comparative
- most necessarily superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does necessarily mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Inevitably; of necessity.
It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Necessarily in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of necessity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | absolument, nécessairement |
| German | notwendigerweise, nötig, unbedingt, zwangsläufig |
| Portuguese | necessariamente |
| Spanish | necesariamente |
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 necessarily come from?
From necessary + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).