frazzle

Other forms of frazzle

plural

frazzles·

past tense

frazzled·

present participle

frazzling·

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 frazzle

What does frazzle mean?

frazzle means "wear away by rubbing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frazzle?

frazzle has 2 syllables: fraz-zle. The stress falls on "fraz". In IPA it is /ˈfɹæzəl/.

What is another word for frazzle?

Close synonyms include fray. 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 frazzle a common word?

frazzle 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.