drizzle

Other forms of drizzle

plural

drizzles·

past tense

drizzled·

present participle

drizzling·

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 drizzle

What does drizzle mean?

drizzle means "rain lightly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drizzle?

drizzle has 2 syllables: driz-zle. The stress falls on "driz". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɪzəl/.

What is another word for drizzle?

Close synonyms include mizzle, moisten, mizzle. 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 drizzle a common word?

drizzle 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.