parasitically

1. 1.

   in a parasitic manner

Questions about parasitically

What does parasitically mean?

parasitically means "in a parasitic manner".

How many syllables are in parasitically?

parasitically has 6 syllables and divides as pa-ra-si-ti-cal-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 parasitically a common word?

parasitically 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.