normally
/ˈnɔɹ.mə.li/adverb
normally is spelled N-O-R-M-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is normaly: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Normally is an adverb meaning “Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time”.
How many letters and syllables are in normally?
| Letters | 8: N-O-R-M-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, normaly, about 80 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 normally?
Normally is spelled N-O-R-M-A-L-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for normally 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 normally?
Normally appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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 normally?
- UK /ˈnɔː.mə.li/
- US /ˈnɔɹ.mə.li/
- /ˈnɔ.mə.li/
Normally 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)-Vealhurl-normally.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Jjamesryan-normally.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with normally?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as normally from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹməli/):
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 normally
- more normally comparative
- most normally superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does normally mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time
Normally, I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9.
- 2
In the expected or customary manner.
Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.
- 3
To a usual or customary extent or degree.
He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so.
- 4
In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Normally in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | normalement |
| German | normalerweise , normal |
| Portuguese | normalmente |
| Spanish | normalmente, de costumbre |
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.