stably

1. 1.

   in a stable solid fixed manner

   “the boulder was balanced stably at the edge of the canyon”
2. 2.

   in a stable unchanging manner

   “the death rate in Russia has been stably high”

Questions about stably

What does stably mean?

stably means "in a stable solid fixed manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stably?

stably has 2 syllables: sta-bly. The stress falls on "sta".

Is stably a common word?

stably 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.