Was just wondering whether 'remarkedly' is a word or not. When I typed it in Office Word it doesn't come up as a spelling error but I can't seem to find anything about it online or a concrete definition. Searching it up in Google Scholar however does show some uses of the word. I stumbled upon it after seeing the word 'markedly' in an academic journal article and then thinking how similar it would be to 'remarkably' if I added re- at the front and then finding out that it didn't show up as incorrect.
My feeling is that the two words markedly and remarkedly are variations of the same word as Merriam-Webster funnily puts markedly as the definition for remarkedly. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remarkedly
Best Answer
Remarkedly is a word.
The Oxford English Dictionary classifies the word as a derived form of "Remarked, adj. 1":
For the adverb, the OED collects several examples starting from the 17th century:
It's possible that modern usages are an error that comes from mixing up remarkably and markedly. That is hard to categorize though, and the possibility of error shouldn't be taken to suggest that remarkedly isn't a word. In the Corpus of Contemporary American English, I found this example from a 1990 PBS Newshour interview (4/30/1990) between the host, Mr. Lehrer, and then-Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Mr. Kimmitt, where the latter uses remarkably and remarkedly in close succession:
Was he reduplicating the re- on the second utterance in error, intending markedly, or choosing remarkedly as a distinct echo of the first? There's too little information to know for sure what Mr. Kimmitt intended, so we have to judge based on what he actually said.
Given that it is used, and is defined and attested for some time, it makes sense to treat it as a distinct word with similar meaning to markedly or remarkably.