creel

1. 1.

   a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish

   Broaderbasket

Other forms of creel

plural

creels·

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 creel

What does creel mean?

creel means "a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish".

How many syllables are in creel?

creel has 1 syllable: creel. In IPA it is /ˈkɹil/.

Is creel a common word?

creel 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.