preferably

• preferrably

From preferable + -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛf.ɹəˌbli/, /pɹəˈfɜː.ɹəˌbli/

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preferably (comparative more preferably, superlative most preferably)

1. In preference; by choice; in a preferable manner.
   • 2000, Karel Kulp, Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded, page 48:

     The nondegerming system grinds corn, preferably white dent corn, into meal with little, if any, separation of germ.

   • 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.

• “preferably”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.