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weekly

/ˈwiːk.li/adverb, adjective, noun

weekly is spelled W-E-E-K-L-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, weekly means “Once every week” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in weekly?

Letters6: W-E-E-K-L-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

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).

How common is weekly?

Weekly appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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).

How do you pronounce weekly?

  • /ˈwiːk.li/

Weekly has 2 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: En-us-weekly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with weekly

Sounds like: weakly (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of weekly

  • weeklies plural

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

What does weekly mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    Once every week.

    She visits her mother weekly.

  2. 2

    Every week.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to a week.

  2. 2

    Happening once a week, or every week.

    He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.

noun

  1. 1

    A publication that is published once a week.

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

How do you abbreviate weekly?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of weekly: wkly.

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

Weekly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhebdomadairement, chaque semaine (once every week), une fois par semaine (every week), hebdomadaire (happening once a week or every week), hebdo (publication that is published once a week)
Germanwöchentlich (once every week), Wochenzeitschrift, Wochenblatt, Wochenzeitung (publication that is published once a week)
Portuguesesemanalmente (once every week), semanário, hebdomadário (publication that is published once a week), semanal (of or relating to a week)
Spanishsemanalmente, cada semana (once every week), todas las semanas (every week), semanal (happening once a week or every week), semanario, hebdomadario (publication that is published once a week)

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 weekly come from?

From Middle English wykely (adverb), equivalent to week + -ly (adverbial suffix) or week + -ly (adjectival suffix). Compare Dutch wekelijks (“weekly”), German wöchentlich (“weekly”), Danish ugentlig (“weekly”), Norwegian ukentlig (“weekly”), Icelandic vikulega (“weekly”), Swedish veckovis (“weekly”).

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

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