telly

Other forms of telly

plural

tellies·

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 telly

What does telly mean?

telly means "an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen".

How many syllables are in telly?

telly has 2 syllables: tel-ly. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˈtɛli/.

What is another word for telly?

Close synonyms include television receiver, television, television set, tv, tv set. 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 telly a common word?

telly 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.