vigorously
/ˈvɪɡəɹəsli/adverb
vigorously is spelled V-I-G-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is vigourously: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Vigorously is an adverb meaning “With intense energy, force or vigor”.
How many letters and syllables are in vigorously?
| Letters | 10: V-I-G-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, vigourously, about 40 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 vigorously?
Vigorously is spelled V-I-G-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for vigorously 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 vigorously?
Vigorously appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 vigorously?
- /ˈvɪɡəɹəsli/
Vigorously 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vigorously.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vigorously
- more vigorously comparative
- most vigorously superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vigorously mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
With intense energy, force or vigor
The lawyer vigorously defended her client.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vigorously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense with intense energy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vigoureusement |
| German | kräftig, ordentlich, heftig, tüchtig, stark, gründlich |
| Portuguese | vigorosamente |
| Spanish | vigorosamente |
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 vigorously come from?
From vigorous + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).