joggle

Other forms of joggle

plural

joggles·

past tense

joggled·

present participle

joggling·

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 joggle

What does joggle mean?

joggle means "a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in joggle?

joggle has 2 syllables: jog-gle. The stress falls on "jog".

What is another word for joggle?

Close synonyms include dowel, dowel pin, jiggle, jiggle, wiggle. 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 joggle a common word?

joggle 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.