hackle

Other forms of hackle

plural

hackles·

past tense

hackled·

present participle

hackling·

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 hackle

What does hackle mean?

hackle means "long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hackle?

hackle has 2 syllables: hac-kle. The stress falls on "hac". In IPA it is /ˈhækəl/.

What is another word for hackle?

Close synonyms include heckle, hatchel. 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 hackle a common word?

hackle 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.