haggle

Other forms of haggle

plural

haggles·

past tense

haggled·

present participle

haggling·

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 haggle

What does haggle mean?

haggle means "an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haggle?

haggle has 2 syllables: hag-gle. The stress falls on "hag". In IPA it is /ˈhæɡəl/.

What is another word for haggle?

Close synonyms include haggling, wrangle, wrangling, higgle, chaffer. 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 haggle a common word?

haggle 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.