heckle

Other forms of heckle

plural

heckles·

past tense

heckled·

present participle

heckling·

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 heckle

What does heckle mean?

heckle means "comb with a heckle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heckle?

heckle has 2 syllables: hec-kle. The stress falls on "hec". In IPA it is /ˈhɛkəl/.

What is another word for heckle?

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

heckle 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.