dibble

Other forms of dibble

plural

dibbles·

past tense

dibbled·

present participle

dibbling·

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 dibble

What does dibble mean?

dibble means "plant with a wooden hand tool". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dibble?

dibble has 2 syllables: dib-ble. The stress falls on "dib". In IPA it is /ˈdɪbəl/.

What is another word for dibble?

Close synonyms include dibber. 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 dibble a common word?

dibble 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.