shaly
adjective
shaly is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to or resembling shale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-H-A-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does shaly mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to or resembling shale.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of shaly
- shalier comparative
- shaliest superlative
- shaley
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is shaly?
Shaly appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 shaly come from?
From shale + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).