significantly
/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəntli/adverb
significantly is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-N-T-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is signifigantly: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Significantly is an adverb meaning “In a significant manner or to a significant extent”.
How many letters and syllables are in significantly?
| Letters | 13: S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-N-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,785th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, signifigantly, about 70 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 significantly?
Significantly is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-N-T-L-Y. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for significantly 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 significantly?
Significantly appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,785th 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 significantly?
- /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəntli/
Significantly has 5 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)-Vininn126-significantly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of significantly
- more significantly comparative
- most significantly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does significantly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a significant manner or to a significant extent.
Irene's English significantly improved after taking a year out in Ireland.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Significantly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a significant manner: notably:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | considérablement |
| German | wesentlich, beträchtlich |
| Portuguese | significativamente, notavelmente |
| Spanish | significativamente |
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 significantly come from?
From significant + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).