sufficiently
suf·fi·cient·ly/səˈfɪʃəntli/adverb
sufficiently is spelled S-U-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T-L-Y, 4 syllables: suf·fi·cient·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is sufficently: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Sufficiently is an adverb meaning “In a sufficient manner; enough”.
How many letters and syllables are in sufficiently?
| Letters | 12: S-U-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: suf·fi·cient·ly |
| In writing | 6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sufficently, about 30 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 sufficiently?
Sufficiently is spelled S-U-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for sufficiently 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 sufficiently?
Sufficiently appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 sufficiently?
- /səˈfɪʃəntli/
Sufficiently has 4 syllables, split suf·fi·cient·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sufficiently.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sufficiently
- more sufficiently comparative
- most sufficiently superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sufficiently mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a sufficient manner; enough.
Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.
- 2
To a sufficient extent.
We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sufficiently in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a sufficient manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | suffisamment |
| German | ausreichend, genug |
| Portuguese | suficientemente |
| Spanish | suficientemente |
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 sufficiently come from?
From sufficient + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).