hurtle

Other forms of hurtle

past tense

hurtled·

present participle

hurtling·

third person

hurtles·

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 hurtle

What does hurtle mean?

hurtle means "move with or as if with a rushing sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hurtle?

hurtle has 2 syllables: hur-tle. The stress falls on "hur". In IPA it is /ˈhɝtəl/.

What is another word for hurtle?

Close synonyms include lunge, hurl, thrust, hurl, cast. 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 hurtle a common word?

hurtle 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.