About The Word “Recently”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “recently”, including spelling, parts of speech, “recently” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “recently”

Recently is spelled r-e-c-e-n-t-l-y and has 8 letters.


How to pronounce “recently”

IPA pronunciation: /ˈriːsəntli/

Phonetic pronunciation: REE-suhnt-lee


How many vowels and consonants in “recently”

The word “recently” has 6 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “recently”?

There are 3 syllables in the word “recently”.


What type of word is “recently”?

The word "recently" can be a adverb.

Meaning of the word “recently”

'Recently' is an adverb that refers to a period of time that is close to the present or has just passed. It indicates that an event, action, or situation occurred not long ago or is still fresh in memory.

Origin of the word “recently”

The word 'recently' has its origins in the Latin term 'recens,' meaning 'fresh, new, or lately done.' It was later adopted into Middle English as 'recent,' and the adverb form 'recently' emerged in the 15th century.

Example sentences with the word “recently”

Adverb:
  1. Recently, I discovered a new coffee shop in our neighborhood.
  2. She has recently taken up painting as a hobby.
  3. The company recently announced its plans for expansion.
  4. I have been feeling more energetic recently after changing my diet.

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Synonyms for “recently”

Other words for “recently” include lately, newly, freshly, just, newly, of late.

Common misspellings of “recently”

Ricently, recantly

Similar words to “recently”

Decently, presently, recency, recent, reentry, iridescently, precent

Scrambled words derived from “recently”

Ltencrye, lyecrnet, lrytcene, eynletrc, eytcelrn, nltecrye, lcrteyne, tryclene, lterceny, elrycent, lcnyteer, lreycetn, ceertnly, nterlcey, lecynetr, lntyrcee, ytrlncee, eyrcletn, yentcrel, ntlrceye, cleryten, leytecrn, neleyrct, cyeertnl, ecetnlyr

Words that rhyme with “recently”

Decently, frequently, gently, evidently, patiently

Crossword clues for “recently”

Lately, rearranged letters cry "ent" (7).

Fun facts about the word “recently”

The word “recently” has a Scrabble score of 13 and reads yltnecer in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “recently”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“recently” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “recently”

Lowercase word: 114 101 99 101 110 116 108 121

Uppercase word: 82 69 67 69 78 84 76 89

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “recently”

Lowercase word: 1110010 1100101 1100011 1100101 1101110 1110100 1101100 1111001

Uppercase word: 1010010 1000101 1000011 1000101 1001110 1010100 1001100 1011001

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “recently”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x72 0x65 0x63 0x65 0x6E 0x74 0x6C 0x79

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x52 0x45 0x43 0x45 0x4E 0x54 0x4C 0x59

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “recently”

Lowercase: 114 101 99 101 110 116 108 121

Upprcase: 82 69 67 69 78 84 76 89

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “recently”

Lowercase: 162 145 143 145 156 164 154 171

Upprcase: 122 105 103 105 116 124 114 131

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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