chuckle

Other forms of chuckle

plural

chuckles·

past tense

chuckled·

present participle

chuckling·

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 chuckle

What does chuckle mean?

chuckle 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 chuckle?

chuckle has 2 syllables: chuc-kle. The stress falls on "chuc". In IPA it is /ˈtʃʌkəl/.

What is another word for chuckle?

Close synonyms include chortle, chortle, 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 chuckle a common word?

chuckle is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.