cackle

1. 1.

   talk or utter in a cackling manner

   “The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine”

   Broadertalk
2. 2.

   squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

   Broaderutter

   Narrowergaggle
3. 3.

   emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

   Broaderlaugh

Other forms of cackle

plural

cackles·

past tense

cackled·

present participle

cackling·

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 cackle

What does cackle mean?

cackle means "the sound made by a hen after laying an egg". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cackle?

cackle has 2 syllables: cac-kle. The stress falls on "cac". In IPA it is /ˈkækəl/.

What is another word for cackle?

Close synonyms include yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter. 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 cackle a common word?

cackle 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.