How to spell regularly

hear itreg·u·lar·ly/'rɛɡjələrli/adverbRules and real life

What it means: At evenly spaced times, or very often.

In a sentence: He brushes his teeth regularly to keep them clean and shiny.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as regulary or regularily.

Same family: regular, irregular, regularity, regulate, regulation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Regularly” comes from the adjective “regular,” which traces back to the Latin word *regula*, meaning a rule or straight stick used for measuring. So doing something regularly originally carried the sense of following a rule or a steady pattern.

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