shelley

Other forms of shelley

plural

shelleys·

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 shelley

What does shelley mean?

shelley means "English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shelley?

shelley has 2 syllables: shel-ley. The stress falls on "shel". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛli/.

What is another word for shelley?

Close synonyms include Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley. 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 shelley a common word?

shelley is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.