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How to spell happily

Happily is spelled H-A-P-P-I-L-Y. The part people get wrong: double P.

What it means: In a joyful or cheerful manner.

In a sentence: The dog wagged its tail happily. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: happiness, unhappy, happier, happiest, unhappily. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Happily comes from the adjective “happy,” which originally meant “lucky” or “fortunate” in Middle English. The -ly ending is an old English suffix that turns adjectives into adverbs, showing the way something is done.

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