English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “minutely”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for minutely is minute-ly, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
minute-ly
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result minutely The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordminutely
Hyphenationminute-ly
Break points1
Part of speechadjective · adverb
Meaning & usage

What does “minutely” mean?

minutely: Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.

Headwordminutely
Part of speechadjective · adverb
1
adjective

Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.

2
adverb

With attention to tiny details.

3
adverb

On a minute scale.

Word breaks

How “minutely” is split

minute·ly

For US English, the hyphenation result is minute-ly. This gives 1 possible line-break point in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns minutely.

Quick answers

Questions about “minutely”

How do you hyphenate “minutely”?

In the US-English result used here, minutely is hyphenated as minute-ly.

Where can “minutely” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “minutely” mean?

Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.

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