jangle

Other forms of jangle

plural

jangles·

past tense

jangled·

present participle

jangling·

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 jangle

What does jangle mean?

jangle means "a metallic sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jangle?

jangle has 2 syllables: jan-gle. The stress falls on "jan". In IPA it is /ˈdʒæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for jangle?

Close synonyms include jingle, jingle, jingle-jangle. 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 jangle a common word?

jangle 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.