hatchel

Other forms of hatchel

plural

hatchels·

past tense or participle

hatchelled

present participle

hatchelling

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 hatchel

What does hatchel mean?

hatchel means "a comb for separating flax fibers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hatchel?

hatchel has 2 syllables: hat-chel. The stress falls on "hat". In IPA it is /ˈhætʃəl/.

What is another word for hatchel?

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

hatchel 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.