boggle

Other forms of boggle

past tense

boggled·

present participle

boggling·

third person

boggles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about boggle

What does boggle mean?

boggle means "startle with amazement or fear". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boggle?

boggle has 2 syllables: bog-gle. The stress falls on "bog". In IPA it is /ˈbɑɡəl/.

What is another word for boggle?

Close synonyms include flabbergast, bowl over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boggle a common word?

boggle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.