reportedly
/ɹɪˈpɔːtɪdli/adverb
reportedly is spelled R-E-P-O-R-T-E-D-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is reportadly: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Reportedly is an adverb meaning “According to reports or rumors”.
How many letters and syllables are in reportedly?
| Letters | 10: R-E-P-O-R-T-E-D-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, reportadly, 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 reportedly?
Reportedly is spelled R-E-P-O-R-T-E-D-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for reportedly 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 reportedly?
Reportedly appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 reportedly?
- UK /ɹɪˈpɔːtɪdli/
Reportedly has 4 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-reportedly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does reportedly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
According to reports or rumors.
Near-synonyms: reputedly, purportedly, putatively, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Reportedly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense according to reports or rumors:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | supposément, paraît-il |
| German | angeblich, Gerüchten zufolge |
| Spanish | supuestamente, reportadamente, según se dice |
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 reportedly come from?
From reported + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).