unsurprisingly
adverb
unsurprisingly is spelled U-N-S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is unsuprisingly: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Unsurprisingly is an adverb meaning “Not surprisingly, as could be expected”.
How many letters and syllables are in unsurprisingly?
| Letters | 14: U-N-S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unsuprisingly, about 10 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 unsurprisingly?
Unsurprisingly is spelled U-N-S-U-R-P-R-I-S-I-N-G-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for unsurprisingly 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 unsurprisingly?
Unsurprisingly appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 unsurprisingly?
Unsurprisingly has 5 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).
Forms of unsurprisingly
- more unsurprisingly comparative
- most unsurprisingly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unsurprisingly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Not surprisingly, as could be expected.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unsurprisingly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not surprisingly:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sans surprise, comme on pouvait s'y attendre |
| Portuguese | como já era de esperar, como já era de se esperar |
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 unsurprisingly come from?
From unsurprising + -ly or un- + surprisingly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).