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quarterly

adjective, noun, adverb

quarterly is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R-L-Y: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, quarterly means “Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in quarterly?

Letters9: Q-U-A-R-T-E-R-L-Y
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is quarterly?

Quarterly appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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 quarterly?

Quarterly 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-quarterly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of quarterly

  • quarterlies plural

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

What does quarterly mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.

    quarterly rent payments

  2. 2

    (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

    The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

noun

  1. 1

    A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

adverb

  1. 1

    Once every quarter year (three months).

  2. 2

    In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.

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

How do you abbreviate quarterly?

Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of quarterly: qrly, qrtly, qtly, qtr, qtrly.

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

Quarterly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtrimestriel (occurring once every quarter year), écartelé (divided into four parts crosswise), trimestriellement (once every quarter year)
Germanvierteljährlich, dreimonatlich (occurring once every quarter year), Vierung (divided into four parts crosswise), quartalsweise (once every quarter year), Vierteljahresschrift (periodical publication)
Portuguesetrimestral (occurring once every quarter year), esquartelado (divided into four parts crosswise), trimestralmente (once every quarter year)
Spanishtrimestral (occurring once every quarter year), acuartelado, cuartelado (divided into four parts crosswise), trimestralmente (once every quarter year)

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 quarterly come from?

From quarter + -ly (adjectival).

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

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