superfluously

1. 1.

   in a superfluous manner

   “superfluously, he added his silly comments to the discussion”

Questions about superfluously

What does superfluously mean?

superfluously means "in a superfluous manner".

How many syllables are in superfluously?

superfluously has 5 syllables and divides as su-per-flu-ou-sly 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 superfluously a common word?

superfluously 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.