Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woodley

/wˈʊdli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables
wood-ley
IPA
/wˈʊdli/
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A suburban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ938922).

Countable; Uncountable

name

An eastern suburb of Romsey, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3722).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Benson, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wood + -ley (“lea”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Woodleys (plural) Woodlee (alternative)

Rhymes With

goodly

Questions

How do you pronounce woodley?
The recorded pronunciation is /wˈʊdli/.
What does woodley mean?
A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).
Where does woodley come from?
It is traced to Old English.

How to pronounce woodley

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