separately
sep·a·rate·ly/ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/adverb
separately is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E-L-Y, 4 syllables: sep·a·rate·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is seperately: about 1,100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Separately is an adverb meaning “In a separate manner; not together; apart”.
How many letters and syllables are in separately?
| Letters | 10: S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: sep·a·rate·ly |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, seperately, about 1,100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 separately?
Separately is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E-L-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 separately?
Separately appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 separately?
- UK /ˈsɛp.(ə.)ɹət.li/
- US /ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/
- US /ˈsɛp.ɚ.li/
Separately has 4 syllables, split sep·a·rate·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-separately.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does separately mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a separate manner; not together; apart.
We've been living separately for three years.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Separately in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a separate manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | séparément |
| German | getrennt |
| Portuguese | separadamente |
| Spanish | separadamente |
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 separately come from?
From separate + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).