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probably

adverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United States//ˈpɹɑ.bə.bli//
  • United States//ˈpɹɑ.(b)li//
  • United States//ˈpɹɑə(b)li//
  • Canada//ˈpɹɒb.ə.bli//
  • Canada//ˈpɹɒb.li//

In all likelihood.

adverb

  1. 1

    In all likelihood.

    She probably has arrived by now.

    She has probably arrived by now.

    Probably she has arrived by now.

    He'll probably arrive tomorrow.

Etymology

From Middle English probably, probabily, equivalent to probable + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more probably
superlative
most probably
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).