prattle

Other forms of prattle

plural

prattles·

past tense

prattled·

present participle

prattling·

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 prattle

What does prattle mean?

prattle means "idle or foolish and irrelevant talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prattle?

prattle has 2 syllables: prat-tle. The stress falls on "prat". In IPA it is /ˈpɹætəl/.

What is another word for prattle?

Close synonyms include prate, idle talk, blether, chin music, chatter. 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 prattle a common word?

prattle 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.