huddled

1. 1.

   crowded or massed together

   “give me...your huddled masses”

   “the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind”

   Similarcrowded

Other forms of huddled

comparative

huddledder·

superlative

huddleddest·

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 huddled

What does huddled mean?

huddled means "crowded or massed together".

How many syllables are in huddled?

huddled has 2 syllables: hudd-led. The stress falls on "hudd". In IPA it is /ˈhʌdəld/.

Is huddled a common word?

huddled 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.