The spelling of the word "Eleby" follows the English language's phonetic rules, whereby letters are used to represent specific sounds. In IPA phonetic transcription, "Eleby" can be spelled as /ɛləbi/. The first sound is represented by the letter "e" which produces the short /ɛ/ vowel sound, while the letter "l" represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant /l/. The second syllable is spelled with the letter "b," and it produces the voiced bilabial plosive consonant /b/, followed by a weak unstressed syllable represented by the letter "i."