ladle

1. 1.

   a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another

   Broadervessel

   Narrowerdipperscoopsoup ladle

   Partshandle

Other forms of ladle

plural

ladles·

past tense

ladled·

present participle

ladling·

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 ladle

What does ladle mean?

ladle means "put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ladle?

ladle has 2 syllables: la-dle. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪdəl/.

What is another word for ladle?

Close synonyms include lade, laden. 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 ladle a common word?

ladle 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.