# sweetly

> English word · Adverb · IPA /ˈswiːtli/ · frequency rank #28,747

## Definitions
1. With a sweet taste or aroma.
2. In a sweet or pleasant manner.
3. Nicely; finely; excellently.

## Etymology
From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).

## Easily confused with
- **sweets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweetly-vs-sweets)
- **sweety** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweetly-vs-sweety)
- **swiftly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweetly-vs-swiftly)
- **sweet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweet-vs-sweetly)
- **sweaty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweaty-vs-sweetly)
- **steely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/steely-vs-sweetly)
- **sweetie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweetie-vs-sweetly)
- **Sweeney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweeney-vs-sweetly)
- **steeply** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/steeply-vs-sweetly)
- **sweeten** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sweeten-vs-sweetly)

## Common misspellings (11)
`sewetly`, `ssweetly`, `sweelty`, `sweetlly`, `sweetlyy`, `sweettly`, `sweetyl`, `swetely`, `swetly`, `swweetly`, `wseetly`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sweetly