familiarly

1. 1.

   in an intimately familiar manner

   “Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group”

Questions about familiarly

What does familiarly mean?

familiarly means "in an intimately familiar manner".

How many syllables are in familiarly?

familiarly has 5 syllables and divides as fa-mi-li-ar-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 familiarly a common word?

familiarly 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.