chortle

Other forms of chortle

plural

chortles·

past tense

chortled·

present participle

chortling·

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 chortle

What does chortle mean?

chortle means "a soft partly suppressed laugh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chortle?

chortle has 2 syllables: chor-tle. The stress falls on "chor". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɔɹtəl/.

What is another word for chortle?

Close synonyms include chuckle, chuckle, laugh softly. 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 chortle a common word?

chortle 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.