surprisingly
/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/adverb
surprisingly is spelled S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is surprizingly: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Surprisingly is an adverb meaning “In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual”.
How many letters and syllables are in surprisingly?
| Letters | 12: S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, surprizingly, about 20 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 surprisingly?
Surprisingly is spelled S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G-L-Y. 3 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 surprisingly?
Surprisingly appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 surprisingly?
- /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
Surprisingly has 4 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-surprisingly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of surprisingly
- more surprisingly comparative
- most surprisingly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does surprisingly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.
Near-synonyms: unexpectedly, unusually
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Surprisingly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | étonnamment |
| German | überraschend, überraschenderweise, erstaunlicherweise |
| Portuguese | surpreendentemente |
| Spanish | sorprendentemente, sorpresivamente, fulminantemente |
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 surprisingly come from?
From surprising + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).