polysyllabically

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   in a polysyllabic manner

Questions about polysyllabically

What does polysyllabically mean?

polysyllabically means "in a polysyllabic manner".

How many syllables are in polysyllabically?

polysyllabically has 7 syllables and divides as po-ly-syl-la-bi-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 polysyllabically a common word?

polysyllabically 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.