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Capably

Definition: Capably

Capably

Adverb

1. In a competent capable manner; "they worked competently".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "capably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)



Synonyms: Capably

Synonyms: ably (adv), aptly (adv), competently (adv), with competence (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: incompetently (adv). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Capably

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Haha! No fish can withstand the might of my powerful spear gun, so capably wielded! (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed)

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

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Usage Frequency: Capably

"Capably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Capably" is used about 17 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%1785,106

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capably

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

capably

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Capably

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

Albanian

  

me kompetencë (qualitatively), me aftësi (ably). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

умело (ably). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

可胜任地. (various references)

   

Czech

  

schopnì. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

taitavasti (cleverly, skilfully, with skill), kykenevästi (ably). (various references)

   

German

  

imstande (able, capable, capable of). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ικανώσ (ably). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ügyesen (ably, adeptly, adroitly, deftly, expeditiously, expertly, masterly, nattily, skillfully, sleekly, slick, slickly, to jink, to play one's cards well). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

dengan cakap. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

가능하게 (Feasibly, Possibly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apablycay

   

Portuguese

  

competentemente (ably), habilmente (ably, adeptly, clean). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

умело (ably, skilfully, skillfully). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sposobno. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dote (calling, charisma, dowry, drollery, endowment, liking, marriage portion, portion, settlement, settling, talent). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dugligt. (various references)

   

Thai

  

อย่างที่ทำไ"้"ี. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

уміло (ably, skilfully, skillfully). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Capably

Derivations

Words ending with "capably": incapably, inescapably. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Capably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capili, Cazaly. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Capably

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-l-p-y"

-2 letters: cabal, playa.

-3 letters: ably, acyl, alba, baal, clap, clay, lacy, paca, paly, play.

-4 letters: aal, aba, aby, ala, alb, alp, baa, bal, bap, bay, cab, cap, cay, lab, lac, lap, lay, pac, pal, pay, ply, pya, yap.

-5 letters: aa, ab, al, ay, ba, by, la, pa, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-l-p-y"
 

+1 letter: placably, playback.

 

+2 letters: incapably, peaceably, playbacks.

 

+3 letters: acceptably, capability, comparably, implacably.

 

+4 letters: appreciably, inescapably, packability, placability, practicably.

 

+5 letters: bathypelagic, inapplicably, incapability, incomparably, unacceptably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Capably


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

43 61 70 61 62 6C 79

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

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

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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)

01000011 01100001 01110000 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#112 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0070 0061 0062 006C 0079

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

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

37678267687891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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