faultily

1. 1.

   in an inaccurate manner

   “these statements were faultily attributed to me”

Questions about faultily

What does faultily mean?

faultily means "in an inaccurate manner".

How many syllables are in faultily?

faultily has 3 syllables and divides as faul-ti-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 faultily a common word?

faultily 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.