inkle

1. 1.

   a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration

   Broadertape

Other forms of inkle

plural

inkles·

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 inkle

What does inkle mean?

inkle means "a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration".

How many syllables are in inkle?

inkle has 2 syllables: in-kle. The stress falls on "in".

Is inkle a common word?

inkle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.