islay

Other forms of islay

plural

islays·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about islay

What does islay mean?

islay means "California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in islay?

islay has 2 syllables: i-slay. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for islay?

Close synonyms include holly-leaved cherry, holly-leaf cherry, evergreen cherry, Prunus ilicifolia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is islay a common word?

islay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.