Incidentally

Definitions: Incidentally

Incidentally

Adverb

1. Introducing a different topic; "by the way, I won't go to the party".

2. In an incidental manner; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models".

3. By the way; "apropos, can you lend me some money for the weekend?".

Date "incidentally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Incidentally

Synonyms: accidentally (adv), apropos (adv), by chance (adv), by the bye (adv), by the way (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intention	En passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard.
Irrelation	Adverb: parenthetically; Adjective: by the way, by the by; en passant, incidentally; irrespectively; Adjective: without reference to, without regard to; in the abstract; a se.
Occasion	By the way, by the by; en passant, a propos; pro re nata, pro hac vice; par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally; while speaking of, while on the subject; extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the spot; (early).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incidentally

English words defined with "incidentally": accidentally ♦ by chance ♦ en passant ♦ Glancingly ♦ in passing, Incidently, Intermention ♦ Kish ♦ mentioner ♦ Obiter, Obvention ♦ To come across. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incidentally": Moabite stone ♦ respond ♦ Tiberias, Sea of, turkey. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Incidentally, you won't see a nutcracker on the screen. (Fantasia; writing credit: Joe Grant; Dick Huemer)

And have you incidentally heard the terrible news. (Roland Rat, the Series; writing credit: Colin Bostock-Smith; David Claridge)

Incidentally, I've taken your little wisecracks for a few years now, you hideous gargoyle, and if you ever open that gateway to hell you call a mouth in my direction again, I'll snap off your extremities like dead branches and feed them to you at gunpoint. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

No, just a wild stab in the dark which is incidentally what you'll be getting if you don't start being a bit more helpful. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Incidentally, did you know that you are talking to an artist? (The Exorcist III; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

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

Domain	Title
Books	A History of San Francisco: And Incidentally of the State of California (reference) A System of the Science of Music and Practical Composition, Incidentally Comprising What Is Usually Understood by the Term Thorough Bass (reference) History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period (reference) History of Athens County, Ohio, and Incidentally of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta, With Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, (reference) History of Mountain Brook, Alabama and Incidentally of Shades Valley (reference) (more book examples)
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	Incidentally, boss, how did that teach-in work out?.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	As for his own fortune, he had made it also, but secondarily, and, in some sort, incidentally.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These patients are usually detected incidentally by multiphasic screening. (references)
		Small cysts are usually asymptomatic and are discovered only incidentally. (references)
		Because gallstones are so prevalent, they are often present incidentally in patients with other diseases. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
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"Incidentally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incidentally" is used about 1,054 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%	1,054	7,092

Expression using "incidentally": come incidentally. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "incidentally": co-incidentally.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "incidentally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rastësisht (accidentally, at a venture, at times, by accident, by chance, casually, circumstantially, overly), meqë ra fjala (obiter). (various references)

Arabic		‏على نحو طارئ, ‏عرضا (en passant, indiscriminately), ‏صدفة (accident, accidentally, at a venture, chance, coincidence, contingency, haphazard, happening, scallop, seashell, shell). (various references)

Bulgarian		случайно (accidentally, at random, by accident, by chance, casually, circumstantially, fortuitously, happily, idly, occasionally, on occasion, perchance, sporadically), непредвидено, между другото (apropos, by the way, in parentheses, in passing, obiter, parenthetically). (various references)

Chinese		偶然 (occasional, occasionally). (various references)

Czech		náhodnì (by accident, casually, fortuitously, haphazardly), mimochodem (by the way, casually, in passing). (various references)

Finnish		sivumennen sanoen (by the way), muuten (besides, else, or, otherwise). (various references)

French		incidemment, par accident, entre parenthèses (in parenthesis), accidentellement. (various references)

German		zufällig (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casual, casually, chance, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, haphazard, incidental, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic). (various references)

Greek		τυχαία (at random, by accident, by chance, casually). (various references)

Hebrew		א�'ב (apropos, by the way, by way of), כלאחר י�" (by the way, casual, casually, offhand, perfunctory), �"רך א�'ב (apropos, by the by, by the way, en passant, in passing, obiter), במקר�" (accidentally, by accident, by chance, hit or miss). (various references)

Hungarian		mellékesen (by the way, episodically). (various references)

Indonesian		bersamaan (coincide, in unison, together with). (various references)

Italian		incidentalmente, casualmente (accidentally, by chance, casually, coincidently, haphazard, occasionally). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		序でに (on the occasion, taking the opportunity, whileare at it), 序に (on the occasion, taking the opportunity, whileare at it), 旁旁 (at the same time), 旁々 (at the same time), 旁 (at the same time, the right half of a character when the left half is its radical), それに� えて (by the way, in addition to this, those over there), � みに (by the way, in passing, in this connection), 不図 (accidentally, casually, suddenly, unexpectedly, unintentionally). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		それはそうと (by the way), ふと (accidentally, casually, suddenly, unexpectedly, unintentionally), ついでに (on the occasion, taking the opportunity, whileare at it), かたがた (all gentlemen, all people, all sides, any way, at the same time, everywhere, here and there, persons, this and that), ちなみに (by the way, in passing, in this connection). (various references)

Manx		dy taghyrtagh (accidentally). (various references)

Norwegian		forresten. (various references)

Pig Latin		incidentallyay

Portuguese		incidentalmente, superveniente. (various references)

Romanian		apropo (about, by the way, concerning, hint, on, that reminds me, upon), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references)

Russian		случайно (accidentally, accidently, at random, by accident, by chance, coincidentally, fortuitously, haphazardly, occasionally, perchance), в данном случае (in the instance, in this instance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uzgredno, slučajno (accidentally, chance: by chance, fortuitously, haphazard, haphazardly). (various references)

Spanish		incidentemente, incidentalmente, de paso (by the way, en passant, in passing, passing, through). (various references)

Swedish		tillfälligtvis (accidentally, by accident, by chance), i förbigående (by the way, in passing, passingly). (various references)

Turkish		yakında (at hand, ere long, fast by, hard by, near, nearby, round, shortly, soon), tesadüfen (accidentally, by accident, by chance, by coincidence, casually, causelessly, fortuitously, haply, in passing), lâf arasında, bu arada (among other things, at this time, by the way, in the meantime, in the meanwhile, inter alia, meantime, meanwhile), şans eseri (fluke, haphazard, perchance). (various references)

Ukranian		випадково (accidentally, adventitiously, by accident, by chance, casually, circumstantiality, fortuitously, haphazard, haphazardly, occasionally, perchance, promiscuously), між іншим (apropos, by the way, obiter). (various references)

Vietnamese		tình cờ (accidental, accidentally, casual, chance, contingent, en passant, fortuitous, incidental, passing), nhân thể, nhân đây (by), ngẫu nhiên (accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haply, incidental, perchance, promiscuous), bất ngờ nhân tiện. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "incidentally": coincidentally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incidentally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incidentaly, incidentlly, incindentally. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incidentally" (pronounced i'nsude"ntulē or i'nsude"ntlē)
11	i' n s u d e" n t u l ē	coincidentally.
9	-s u d e" n t u l ē	accidentally.
6	-e" n t u l ē	continentally, developmentally, environmentally, experimentally, fundamentally, incrementally, mentally, monumentally, temperamentally.
5	-n t u l ē	governmentally, horizontally, jauntily, scantily.
4	-t u l ē	anecdotally, brutally, digitally, fatally, hastily, haughtily, heartily, mightily, mortally, nattily, subtly, testily, totally, vitally, wittily.
3	-u l ē	abnormally, abysmally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, diagonally, diametrically, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, morally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully.
5	-e" n t l ē	gently, intently.
4	-n t l ē	abundantly, accidently, adamantly, apparently, ardently, arrogantly, blatantly, bluntly, brilliantly, coherently, competently, complacently, concomitantly, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, currently, decently, defiantly, differently, diligently, efficiently, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, excellently, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, flagrantly, flamboyantly, fluently, fraudulently, frequently, hesitantly, imminently, impatiently, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, independently, indignantly, inefficiently, infrequently, inherently, innocently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intermittently, jointly, leniently, magnificently, militantly, negligently, nonchalantly, obediently, patently, patiently, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, predominantly, presently, prominently, prudently, pungently, quaintly, recently, reluctantly, reverently, saintly, significantly, silently, stridently, stringently, subsequently, sufficiently, transparently, triumphantly, unpleasantly, urgently, valiantly, vehemently, violently, virulently.
3	-t l ē	abruptly, absolutely, accurately, acutely, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, appropriately, approximately, aptly, astutely, brightly, commensurately, compassionately, completely, concretely, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, curtly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, difficultly, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, elaborately, exactly, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, firstly, flatly, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imperfectly, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, incorrectly, indefinitely, indirectly, indiscriminately, ineptly, infinitely, innately, inordinately, intimately, intricately, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, legitimately, lightly, manifestly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, nightly, overtly, partly, passionately, perfectly, politely, portly, priestly, privately, promptly, proportionately, quietly, raptly, remotely, resolutely, rightly, robustly, secretly, separately, shortly, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, succinctly, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unsightly, vastly, Whitely.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-l-n-n-t-y"
	-1 letter: identically.
	-2 letters: incidental.
	-3 letters: anciently, anticline, candlelit, identical, lineality.
	-4 letters: actinide, alcidine, caninity, ciliated, cliental, ctenidia, cytidine, daintily, dentally, dentinal, diacetyl, dialytic, ideality, incanted, incident, inclined, indicant, indicate, innately, landline.
	-5 letters: acidity, alienly, allicin, ancient, aniline, anility, annelid, anticly, candent, cannily, cedilla, ciliate, citadel, cleanly, cyanide, cyanine, cyanite, dactyli, deltaic, dialect, dicliny, edacity, edictal, encinal, ideally, identic, idyllic, inanely, inanity, incited, incline, indican, inedita, inlaced, latency, licitly, lindane, lyncean, tallied, tenancy, tidally, tinnily.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-l-n-n-t-y"
	+2 letters: coincidentally, confidentially.
	+4 letters: unidirectionally.
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