perennially
/pəˈɹɛ.ni.ə.li/adverb
perennially is spelled P-E-R-E-N-N-I-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is perenially: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Perennially is an adverb meaning “Year after year (literally: each year)”.
How many letters and syllables are in perennially?
| Letters | 11: P-E-R-E-N-N-I-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 57,423rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, perenially, about 40 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 perennially?
Perennially is spelled P-E-R-E-N-N-I-A-L-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for perennially 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 perennially?
Perennially appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 57,423rd 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 perennially?
- /pəˈɹɛ.ni.ə.li/
Perennially 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-perennially.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of perennially
- more perennially comparative
- most perennially superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does perennially mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Year after year (literally: each year).
- 2
Constantly; with frequent recurrence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does perennially come from?
From perennial + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).