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"especially" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often particularly (12 letters).
Definitions
Above all; in particular
Word origin
From especial + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“He got up early especially.”
“There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.”
“At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Particularly”10 letters
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