How to spell perfectly

hear itper·fect·ly/'pɜrfɪktli/adverbRules and real life

What it means: In an exact or flawless way.

In a sentence: The puzzle pieces fit together perfectly.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as perferctly or perfecly.

Same family: perfected, perfection, imperfect, perfecter, perfecting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Perfectly comes from the adjective 'perfect,' which traces back to Latin 'perfectus,' meaning 'completed' or 'made through.' Over time, English added the suffix '-ly' to turn it into an adverb that describes doing something in a complete or ideal way.

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