# Wellesley

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈwɛlɪzli/ · frequency rank #30,288

## Definitions
1. An English surname.
2. A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts; named for the estate of local benefactor Horatio Hollis Hunnewell
3. A township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
4. Ellipsis of Wellesley College.

## Etymology
From the name of the town Wells (“springs”) + lēah (“woodland”), thus 'the woodland by the springs'.

## Common misspellings (12)
`ewllesley`, `welelsley`, `welesley`, `wellelsey`, `wellesely`, `wellesleyy`, `welleslley`, `welleslye`, `wellessley`, `wellseley`, `wlelesley`, `wwellesley`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wellesley