quickly
/ˈkwɪk.li/adverb
quickly is spelled Q-U-I-C-K-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is quickley: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Quickly is an adverb meaning “Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition”.
How many letters and syllables are in quickly?
| Letters | 7: Q-U-I-C-K-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 100 times per million words; the 1,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, quickley, about 120 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 quickly?
Quickly is spelled Q-U-I-C-K-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for quickly 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 quickly?
Quickly appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th 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 quickly?
- /ˈkwɪk.li/
Quickly has 2 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: En-us-quickly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of quickly
- quicklier comparative
- more quickly comparative
- quickliest superlative
- most quickly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quickly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.
Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.
- 2
Very soon.
If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quickly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense rapidly, fast:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rapidement, vite |
| German | schnell, rasch, geschwind |
| Portuguese | rápido, rapidamente, depressa |
| Spanish | con velocidad, con prontitud, con celeridad, con presteza, deprisa, velozmente |
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 quickly come from?
From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).