vigilantly
adverb
vigilantly is an adverb meaning “In a vigilant manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-G-I-L-A-N-T-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vigilantly mean?
adverb
- 1
In a vigilant manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vigilantly
- more vigilantly comparative
- most vigilantly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vigilantly?
Vigilantly appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Vigilantly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a vigilant manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vigilamment |
| Portuguese | vigilantemente |
| Spanish | vigilantemente |
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 vigilantly come from?
From vigilant + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).