frizzle

Other forms of frizzle

past tense

frizzled·

present participle

frizzling·

third person

frizzles·

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 frizzle

What does frizzle mean?

frizzle means "fry something until it curls and becomes crisp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frizzle?

frizzle has 2 syllables: friz-zle. The stress falls on "friz". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪzəl/.

What is another word for frizzle?

Close synonyms include crimp, crape, frizz, kink up, kink. 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 frizzle a common word?

frizzle 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.