Swimmingly

Definition: Swimmingly

Swimmingly

Adverb

1. With great ease and success; "in spite of some mishaps, everything went swimmingly".

Date "swimmingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Synonym: Swimmingly

Synonym: smoothly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Facility	Adverb: easily; Adjective: readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed.
Prosperity	Verb: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous; Adjective: drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.
	Adverb: prosperously; Adjective: swimmingly; as good luck would have it; beyond all hope.
Success	Adverb: successfully; Adjective: well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly; a merveille, beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose; to one's heart's content.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Swimmingly

English words defined with "swimmingly": Natantly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "swimmingly": Sail before the Wind. (references)

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Rainbow Fish - We Get Along Swimmingly (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Swimmingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Swimmingly" is used about 12 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	12	101,599

Expression using "swimmingly": go swimmingly. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "swimmingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si në vaj, ujë (solution, water). (various references)

Arabic		‏بنجاح (coming out well, felicitously, happily, luckily). (various references)

Bulgarian		като по вода. (various references)

Czech		plavnì. (various references)

French		� merveille. (various references)

German		flutschen (go smoothly, go swimmingly, sashay, slide, to sashay). (various references)

Greek		περίφημα, ευκολώσ. (various references)

Hungarian		csalással. (various references)

Indonesian		lancar (fluent). (various references)

Italian		liscio (bald, glib, lank, makeup, neat, plain, simple, sleek, slick, smooth, smoothly, straightforward, undeluted). (various references)

Pig Latin		imminglysway

Portuguese		sem dificuldades (trippingly), facilmente (cose, easily, easy, lightly, readily, with ease), � s mil maravilhas. (various references)

Romanian		uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, thin, with a wet finger), cu bine (good bye, so long), ca pe roate. (various references)

Russian		гладко (sleekly, smooth, smoothly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesmetano, glatko (glibly, smooth, smoothly). (various references)

Spanish		a las mil maravillas. (various references)

Swedish		lekande lätt. (various references)

Turkish		yolunda (alright, in the groove, in the wake of, on foot, on track, prosperous, right), tereyağından kıl çeker gibi, tıkırında (like clock), kolayca (easily, easy as winking, facilely, hands down, light, lightly, readily, smoothly, well, with ease), hızla (apace, at a good clip, by leaps, by leaps and bounds, double quick, fast, in double time, like a streak of lightning, quick, quickly, rapidly, slap, slap bang, speedily, swiftly). (various references)

Ukrainian		гладко (evenly, flat, smooth, smoothly), без перешкод. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuận bu�"m xuôi gió, thông đ�"ng bén giọt (velvet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Swimmingly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: simmingly, swingingly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "swimmingly" (pronounced 'Swim"ming*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-m-m-n-s-w-y"
	-2 letters: mislying, slimming, swimmily, swimming.
	-3 letters: sliming, smiling.
	-4 letters: isling, liming, lyings, lysing, miming, minims, simlin, singly, swimmy, swingy, wiling, wising, wyling.
	-5 letters: glims, limns, lings, lingy, lying, lysin, mingy, minim, minis, sigil, slimy, sling, swing, wings, wingy.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
swimmingly	4
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Swimmingly

Definition: Swimmingly

Swimmingly

Adverb

Synonym: Swimmingly

Synonyms within Context: Swimmingly

Facility

Prosperity

Success

Crosswords: Swimmingly

Commercial Usage: Swimmingly

Theater & Movies

Usage Frequency: Swimmingly

Expression: Swimmingly

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Swimmingly

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Modern Translation: Swimmingly

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Misspellings: Swimmingly

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Rhyming with "Swimmingly"

Anagrams: Swimmingly

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