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signally

adverb

signally is an adverb meaning “In a signal manner; conspicuously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-I-G-N-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does signally mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a signal manner; conspicuously

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

Forms of signally

  • more signally comparative
  • most signally superlative

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

How common is signally?

Signally appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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 signally come from?

From signal + -ly.

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