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How to spell rapidly

Rapidly is spelled R-A-P-I-D-L-Y.

What it means: With speed.

In a sentence: The rabbit ran rapidly to the carrot garden. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: rapid, rapidity, rapidness, quickly, swiftly. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Rapidly” comes from the adjective “rapid,” which entered English from Latin ‘rapidus,’ meaning ‘seizing, hurrying, swift.’ The -ly ending is a common Old English suffix used to turn adjectives like ‘rapid’ into adverbs that describe how an action is done.

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