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vulnerably

adverb

vulnerably is an adverb meaning “In a vulnerable manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-U-L-N-E-R-A-B-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vulnerably mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a vulnerable manner.

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

Forms of vulnerably

  • more vulnerably comparative
  • most vulnerably superlative

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

How common is vulnerably?

Vulnerably appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).

Vulnerably in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in a vulnerable manner:

LanguageWords
Frenchvulnérablement

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 vulnerably come from?

From vulnerable + -ly.

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