Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

INFALLIBLY

Definition: INFALLIBLY

INFALLIBLY

Adverb

1. In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "INFALLIBLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Crosswords: INFALLIBLY

English words defined with "INFALLIBLY": Inerrably. (references)
Specialty definitions using "INFALLIBLY": Dogmatic FactsFreischütz. (references)

Top     

Familiar Quotations: INFALLIBLY

AuthorQuotation

Edmund Burke

As wealth is power, so all power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Use in Literature: INFALLIBLY

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

My greatest apprehension was for my eyes, which I should have infallibly lost, if I had not suddenly thought of an expedient.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: INFALLIBLY

"INFALLIBLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INFALLIBLY" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: INFALLIBLY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  infallibly

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: INFALLIBLY

Language Translations for "INFALLIBLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

لغزش ناپذیری . (various references)

   

German

  

unfehlbare (impeccably). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλαθητώσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tévedhetetlenül, csalhatatlanul (impeccably, unfailingly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

infalliblyay

   

Romanian

  

fãrã greş. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

infaliblemente (surely). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Misspellings: INFALLIBLY

Misspellings

"INFALLIBLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infallibily. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "INFALLIBLY"

Words rhyming with "INFALLIBLY" (pronounced 'In*fal"li*bly'): Abominably, Acceptably, Accessibly, Accountably, Accustomably, Actionably, Admirably, Adorably, Advisably, Affably, Agreeably, Allowably, Alterably, Amenably, Amiably, Amicably, Answerably, ASSEMBLY, Assumably, Audibly, Avaiably, Brambly, Bubbly, Chanceably, Changeably, Chargeably, Charitably, Cognizably, Comfortably, Commensurably, Compatibly, Compellably, Comprehensibly, Conducibly, Conformably, Conscionably, Considerably, Contemptibly, Conversably, Convertibly, Covenably, Credibly, Creditably, Crumbly, Customably, Damnably, Deceivably, Deducibly, Demonstrably, Deplorably. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: INFALLIBLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-i-l-l-l-n-y"

-2 letters: fallibly, filially.

-3 letters: finally.

-4 letters: filial, finial, infall.

-5 letters: alibi, allyl, bally, biali, bialy, billy, binal, blain, blini, filly, final, flail, ilial, inlay.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-i-l-l-l-n-y"
 

+3 letters: infallibility.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: INFALLIBLY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 46 41 4C 4C 49 42 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    ..-.    .-    .-..    .-..    ..    -...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000110 01000001 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000010 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#70 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#66 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0046 0041 004C 004C 0049 0042 004C 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43484035464643364659

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.