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wordly

adjective

wordly is spelled W-O-R-D-L-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wordly means “Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wordly?

Letters6: W-O-R-D-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is wordly?

Wordly appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).

What rhymes with wordly?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as wordly.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: worldy.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of wordly

  • more wordly comparative
  • most wordly superlative

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

What does wordly mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    rareOf, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.

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

Where does wordly come from?

From word + -ly. Compare Dutch woordelijk, German wörtlich.

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

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