felly
fel·ly/ˈfɛli/noun
felly is a noun meaning “The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-L-L-Y and has 2 syllables (fel·ly), and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of felly is fellies.
What does felly mean?
noun
- 1
The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
- 2
Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
adverb
- 1
archaicFiercely, harshly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce felly?
- /ˈfɛli/
As an adverb (“Fiercely, harshly”): /ˈfɛl.li/, /ˈfɛli/.
Felly has 2 syllables, split fel·ly in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-felly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of felly
- fellies plural
- felloe
- more felly comparative
- most felly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is felly?
Felly appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 felly come from?
From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).