pickle

1. 1.

   preserve in a pickling liquid

   Broaderpreserve

   cooking

Other forms of pickle

plural

pickles·

past tense

pickled·

present participle

pickling·

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 pickle

What does pickle mean?

pickle means "vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pickle?

pickle has 2 syllables: pic-kle. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪkəl/.

What is another word for pickle?

Close synonyms include fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle. 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 pickle a common word?

pickle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.