sporadically

1. 1.

   in a sporadic manner

   “he only works sporadically”

   Synonymsperiodically

Questions about sporadically

What does sporadically mean?

sporadically means "in a sporadic manner".

How many syllables are in sporadically?

sporadically has 4 syllables: spora-dic-al-ly. The stress falls on "dic". In IPA it is /spɚˈædɪkli/.

What is another word for sporadically?

Close synonyms include periodically. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sporadically a common word?

sporadically 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.