18 Shorter Synonyms for "Actually"

One word that I really use a lot is "actually." In fact, I probably over-use it. At 8 letters, "actually" is quite a long word relative to the amount of meaning it adds to a tweet or text. Inspired by the exercise I did with the word "interesting," I decided to see if there were indeed any good, shorter synonyms for "actually."

Here's what I found on Thesaurus.com. There are a lot of shades of meaning in this list, so every word isn't appropriate for every context. But keeping these synonyms in mind will surely help free up some crucial characters for other words that can't be shortened.

1. in fact
2. really
3. truly
4. surely
5. easily
6. by far
7. clearly
8. indeed
9. plainly
10. rightly
11. simply
12. quite
13. fully
14. totally
15. utterly
16. well
17. wholly
18. verily