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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gresley

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English

Syllables
gres-ley
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from Church Gresley or Castle Gresley, two villages in Derbyshire, from Old English greōsn (“gravel”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Gresleys (plural)

Phrases

Castle Gresley Church Gresley

Questions

What does gresley mean?
A surname from Old English.
Where does gresley come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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