occasionally: meaning and words from its letters
12 letters · 19 letter points · starts with O · ends with Y
Meaning of occasionally
adv
On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
- obsolete
On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
- obsolete
On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
Source: Wiktionary — occasionally.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adverb
sporadically and infrequently
- on occasion
- once in a while
- now and then
- now and again
- at times
- from time to time
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is occasionally in our word lists?
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Letter-value score of occasionally
O(1) + C(3) + C(3) + A(1) + S(1) + I(1) + O(1) + N(1) + A(1) + L(1) + L(1) + Y(4) = 19 points.
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Anagrams of occasionally
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from occasionally
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