partially
par·tial·ly/ˈpɑɹʃəli/adverb
partially is spelled P-A-R-T-I-A-L-L-Y, 3 syllables: par·tial·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is partialy: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Partially is an adverb meaning “To a partial degree or extent, incompletely”.
How many letters and syllables are in partially?
| Letters | 9: P-A-R-T-I-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: par·tial·ly |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, partialy, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 partially?
Partially is spelled P-A-R-T-I-A-L-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for partially 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 partially?
Partially appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 partially?
- US /ˈpɑɹʃəli/
- UK /ˈpɑːʃəli/
Partially has 3 syllables, split par·tial·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-partially.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does partially mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Partially in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to a partial degree:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | partiellement, en partie |
| German | teilweise, teils, zum Teil |
| Portuguese | parcialmente |
| Spanish | en parte, parcialmente |
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 partially come from?
From partial + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).