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How to spell necessarily

Necessarily is spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-I-L-Y.

What it means: In a way that is essential or unavoidable.

In a sentence: We don't necessarily need an umbrella if it's not raining. ▶

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: necessity, unnecessary, necessarily not, necessitate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Necessarily” comes from the Latin word *necessarius*, meaning “unavoidable” or “indispensable.” English added the adverb suffix “-ly” to “necessary” to form “necessarily,” giving the sense of something that must be so and cannot be otherwise.

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