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viscously

adverb

viscously is an adverb meaning “In a viscous manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-S-C-O-U-S-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does viscously mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a viscous manner.

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

Forms of viscously

  • more viscously comparative
  • most viscously superlative

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

How common is viscously?

Viscously appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).

Where does viscously come from?

From viscous + -ly.

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