yearly
year·ly/ˈjɪɹli/adjective, adverb, noun
yearly is spelled Y-E-A-R-L-Y, 2 syllables: year·ly. The wrong spelling people search most is yaerly: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 77 of all searches for the word. Yearly is an adjective meaning “Happening once every year”.
How many letters and syllables are in yearly?
| Letters | 6: Y-E-A-R-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: year·ly |
| In writing | 7.6 times per million words; the 8,542nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, yaerly, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell yearly?
Yearly is spelled Y-E-A-R-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 77 of the searches for yearly in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is yearly?
Yearly appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd 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 yearly?
- UK /ˈjɪəli/
- British /ˈjɪːlɪj/
- US /ˈjɪɹli/
Yearly has 2 syllables, split year·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-yearly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with yearly?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as yearly from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹli/):
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 yearly
- yearlies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does yearly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Happening once every year.
Christmas is a yearly celebration.
- 2
Over the course of one year
a yearly income
adverb
- 1
Once a year.
- 2
Every year.
noun
- 1
Something that is published once a year.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate yearly?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of yearly: yrly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Yearly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | annuel , annuellement , annuaire |
| German | jährlich |
| Portuguese | anual , anualmente |
| Spanish | anual , anualmente, cada año |
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 yearly come from?
From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).