bacterially

1. 1.

   by bacteria

   “spreads bacterially”

Questions about bacterially

What does bacterially mean?

bacterially means "by bacteria".

How many syllables are in bacterially?

bacterially has 5 syllables and divides as bac-te-ri-al-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bacterially a common word?

bacterially is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.