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raggedly

adverb

raggedly is an adverb meaning “In a ragged manner, unevenly, especially not in unison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-G-G-E-D-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does raggedly mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a ragged manner, unevenly, especially not in unison

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

Forms of raggedly

  • more raggedly comparative
  • most raggedly superlative

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

How common is raggedly?

Raggedly appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).

Where does raggedly come from?

From ragged + -ly.

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