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phylogenetically

adverb

phylogenetically is spelled P-H-Y-L-O-G-E-N-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y: 16 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, phylogenetically means “based on phylogenetics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in phylogenetically?

Letters16: P-H-Y-L-O-G-E-N-E-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 98,107th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is phylogenetically?

Phylogenetically appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th 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).

Forms of phylogenetically

  • more phylogenetically comparative
  • most phylogenetically superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does phylogenetically mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    based on phylogenetics

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Phylogenetically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense based on phylogenetics:

LanguageWords
Frenchphylogénétiquement

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 phylogenetically come from?

From phylogenetic + -ally.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after phylogenetically