# Woodley

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #26,309

## Definitions
1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).
2. A suburban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ938922).
3. An eastern suburb of Romsey, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3722).
4. A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Benson, Saskatchewan, Canada.
5. A suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.
6. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wood + -ley (“lea”).

## Easily confused with
- **woody** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woodley-vs-woody)
- **woolly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woodley-vs-woolly)
- **woolen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woodley-vs-woolen)
- **woollen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woodley-vs-woollen)
- **Woolley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woodley-vs-woolley)
- **woolsey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woodley-vs-woolsey)
- **wooden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wooden-vs-woodley)
- **wooded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wooded-vs-woodley)

## Common misspellings (10)
`owodley`, `wodley`, `wodoley`, `wooddley`, `woodely`, `woodleyy`, `woodlley`, `woodlye`, `wooldey`, `wwoodley`

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