kindle

Other forms of kindle

past tense

kindled·

present participle

kindling·

third person

kindles·

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 kindle

What does kindle mean?

kindle means "catch fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kindle?

kindle has 2 syllables: kin-dle. The stress falls on "kin". In IPA it is /ˈkɪndəl/.

What is another word for kindle?

Close synonyms include inflame, enkindle, conflagrate, inflame, arouse. 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 kindle a common word?

kindle 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.

What rhymes with kindle?

1 word rhymes with kindle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.