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wetly

adverb

wetly is spelled W-E-T-L-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, wetly means “In a wet manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wetly?

Letters5: W-E-T-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wetly?

Wetly appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

Forms of wetly

  • more wetly comparative
  • most wetly superlative

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

What does wetly mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    In a wet manner.

  2. 2

    UKinformalIneffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character.

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

Where does wetly come from?

From wet + -ly.

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

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