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predominately

adverbnonstandard

predominately is spelled P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is predomiantly: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Predominately is an adverb meaning “In a predominate manner; predominantly”.

How many letters and syllables are in predominately?

Letters13: P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, predomiantly, about 10 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 predominately?

Predominately is spelled P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-T-E-L-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for predominately in either form.

predominatelythe right spelling390 searches a month
predomiantlyn and a swapped, a missing e10 searches a month
prominatelya missing e, a missing d10 searches a month

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 predominately?

Predominately appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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 predominately?

    Predominately 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).

    Forms of predominately

    • more predominately comparative
    • most predominately superlative

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

    What does predominately mean?

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

    adverb

    1. 1

      datednonstandardIn a predominate manner; predominantly.

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

    Where does predominately come from?

    From predominate (“adjective”) + -ly.

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

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