glyn
/ɡlɪn/noun
glyn is a noun meaning “A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-Y-N and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glyn is glyns.
What does glyn mean?
noun
- 1
A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce glyn?
- /ɡlɪn/
Glyn has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of glyn
- glyns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is glyn?
Glyn appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does glyn come from?
Borrowed from Welsh glyn; compare glen. Doublet of glen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).