wrongheadedly

1. 1.

   in a wrongheaded manner

Questions about wrongheadedly

What does wrongheadedly mean?

wrongheadedly means "in a wrongheaded manner".

How many syllables are in wrongheadedly?

wrongheadedly has 5 syllables and divides as wrong-he-a-ded-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 wrongheadedly a common word?

wrongheadedly 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.