successfully
suc·cess·ful·ly/səkˈsɛs.fə.li/adverb
successfully is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-F-U-L-L-Y, 4 syllables: suc·cess·ful·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is succesfully: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Successfully is an adverb meaning “In a successful manner; with success; without failing”.
How many letters and syllables are in successfully?
| Letters | 12: S-U-C-C-E-S-S-F-U-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: suc·cess·ful·ly |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,288th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 8; the most searched, succesfully, about 270 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 successfully?
Successfully is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-F-U-L-L-Y. 8 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 successfully?
Successfully appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th 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 successfully?
- US /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
- Australia /səkˈses.fə.li/
Successfully has 4 syllables, split suc·cess·ful·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-successfully.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of successfully
- more successfully comparative
- most successfully superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does successfully mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
He successfully climbed the mountain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Successfully in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a successful manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | avec succès |
| German | erfolgreich |
| Portuguese | com sucesso |
| Spanish | exitosamente |
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 successfully come from?
From successful + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).