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telescopically

adverb

telescopically is an adverb meaning “By means of a telescope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-L-E-S-C-O-P-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does telescopically mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    By means of a telescope.

    That planet can only be seen telescopically.

  2. 2

    Using a telescopic action.

    to be telescopically engageable

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is telescopically?

Telescopically appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).