erroneously

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English erroneous

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English erroneously

From erroneous + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹəʊnɪəsli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

erroneously (comparative more erroneously, superlative most erroneously)

1. In an erroneous manner.
2. Incorrectly.
   • 2017 October 20, Jeremy Diamond, “Kelly erroneously claimed congresswoman took credit for building funding, video shows”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 July 2025:

     White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly on Thursday erroneously claimed that Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Florida, claimed credit for securing “$20 million” in federal funding to build a new FBI field office in Miami in 2015, according to a video of the dedication ceremony posted Friday by the Sun Sentinel.

Translations

in an erroneous manner

• Catalan: erròniament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錯誤地 / 错误地 (zh) (cuòwù de)

• Finnish: virheellisesti (fi)
• French: par erreur (fr), à tort (fr), erronément (fr), faitivement
• Galician: erroneamente
• Georgian: მცდარად (mcdarad), შეცდომით (šecdomit), არასწორად (arasc̣orad)
• German: irrtümlicherweise (de), fälschlicherweise (de)
• Italian: erroneamente (it)
• Japanese: 誤って (あやまって, ayamatte)
• Portuguese: erroneamente
• Russian: оши́бочно (ru) (ošíbočno), по оши́бке (po ošíbke)
• Spanish: erróneamente (es)
• Swedish: felaktigt (sv)
• Walloon: flotchreçmint (wa)

incorrectly — see incorrectly