The phrase "actually a word" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when clarifying or confirming that a particular term or phrase is indeed recognized as a word in the language.
Example: "Many people think 'irregardless' is a proper word, but it is actually a word that is often considered nonstandard."
Alternatives: "truly a word" or "genuinely a word".
– Brian X . Chen Ubiquitous Verb'Gchat' is Not Actually a Word betabeat.com | Wait, wut? Google says 'gchat' is not an official word.
Others tried to take down warhorses like "awesome," "epic," "fecund," "irregardless, "literally" and "actually" — a word Mr. Greenman defended on rhythmic grounds, declaring it "actually useful as a useless dactyl".
At the trendy edges of business theory there is actually a word, and a legal status, for the kind of company the reimagined supermarket might become: the public benefit corporation.
It has been a great disappointment to me to learn that you can't (for example) get out of paying real-estate taxes on your house by claiming it's really a very large, very heavy car, because the law isn't actually a word game.
"All this time, I have been married to this woman, this monument to non-attachment, and suddenly I discover that there is actually a word that sums her up," Jimmy brays to Cliff, in front of Alison: Not just an adjective in the English language to describe her with — it's her name!
This all means that Mammon (which isn't actually a word at all in Norwegian but one of murky, possibly Greek, etymology from the New Testament, meaning material wealth or greed that's personified) is a series you might want to give a go when it turns up on More4 this evening.
And it was Kagan's father, Donald Kagan, a scholar of Thucydides and colleague of Kennedy's at Yale, who actually hurled the "A" word at him in 2001.
It is not actually a word-for-word translation of the Scriptures, but a thought-for-thought paraphrase (i.e. someone put it into their own words) that is easier to read and understand for folks who haven't grown up in church.
Others tried to take down war horses like "awesome," "epic," "fecund," "irregardless, "literally" and "actually" -- a word Mr. Greenman defended on rhythmic grounds, declaring it "actually useful as a useless dactyl".
The word yéle is actually a Creole word, and the right way to say it is lee-lay.
"But the truth is, I never actually wrote a word of it".
