how to pronounce historically

/hɪsˈtɔːɹɪkəliː/

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historically is pronounced in five syllables

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An example use of historically in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… so we already we've historically done we …”

meanings of historically

adverb:

According to history: formerly, in the past, traditionally.
To an unprecedented or extremely rare degree.
In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record.

historically frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word historically occurs in english on average 7.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics historically can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that historically can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;