usually
/ˈjuːʒʊəli/adverb
usually is spelled U-S-U-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is usally: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Usually is an adverb meaning “Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally”.
How many letters and syllables are in usually?
| Letters | 7: U-S-U-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 141 times per million words; the 737th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, usally, about 240 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 usually?
Usually is spelled U-S-U-A-L-L-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for usually 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 usually?
Usually appears 141 times per million words in written English, the 737th 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 usually?
- US /ˈjuːʒʊəli/
- US /ˈjuːʒli/
- US /ˈjuːʒəli/
Usually 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: En-us-usually.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of usually
- more usually comparative
- most usually superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does usually mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
- 2
Under normal conditions.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate usually?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of usually: usu, usu..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Usually in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense most of the time:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | généralement, habituellement, d'habitude, normalement, usuellement |
| German | gewöhnlich |
| Portuguese | geralmente |
| Spanish | usualmente |
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 usually come from?
From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).