valley

Other forms of valley

plural

valleys·

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 valley

What does valley mean?

valley means "a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river".

How many syllables are in valley?

valley has 2 syllables: val-ley. The stress falls on "val". In IPA it is /ˈvæli/.

What is another word for valley?

Close synonyms include vale. 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 valley a common word?

valley is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.