totally

/ˈtoʊ.tə.li/adverb

totally is spelled T-O-T-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is totaly: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Totally is an adverb meaning “To the fullest extent or degree”.

How many letters and syllables are in totally?

Letters	7: T-O-T-A-L-L-Y
Syllables	3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	68 times per million words; the 1,562nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, totaly, about 140 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 totally?

Totally is spelled T-O-T-A-L-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for totally in either form.

totallythe right spelling1,740 searches a month

totalya missing l140 searches a month

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 totally?

Totally appears 68 times per million words in written English, the 1,562nd most frequent word form in the list.

totally0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce totally?

UK /ˈtəʊ.tə.li/
US /ˈtoʊ.tə.li/
US [ˈtoʊ.ɾə.li]

Totally has 3 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: En-uk-totally.ogg, En-us-totally.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does totally mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

1
To the fullest extent or degree.
They've totally demolished the bank on Main Street.
2
colloquialVery; extremely.
That was totally wicked!
3
colloquialDefinitely; for sure.
That was totally not what happened.

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

Totally in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	totalement (In a total manner; completely)
German	vollständig, komplett, völlig (In a total manner; completely), absolut (definitely)
Portuguese	totalmente (In a total manner; completely)
Spanish	totalmente, de todo punto, con armas y bagajes (In a total manner; completely)

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 totally come from?

From total + -ly.