brickle

Questions about brickle

What does brickle mean?

brickle means "having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped".

How many syllables are in brickle?

brickle has 2 syllables: bric-kle. The stress falls on "bric". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪkəl/.

What is another word for brickle?

Close synonyms include brittle, brickly. 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 brickle a common word?

brickle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.