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volubly

adverb

volubly is an adverb meaning “In a voluble manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-U-B-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does volubly mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a voluble manner.

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

Forms of volubly

  • more volubly comparative
  • most volubly superlative

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

How common is volubly?

Volubly appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 volubly come from?

From voluble + -ly.

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