shetland

Other forms of shetland

plural

shetlands·

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 shetland

What does shetland mean?

shetland means "an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shetland?

shetland has 2 syllables: shet-land. The stress falls on "shet". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛtlənd/.

What is another word for shetland?

Close synonyms include Shetland Islands, Zetland, Shetland sheepdog, Shetland sheep dog. 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 shetland a common word?

shetland is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.