rabble

Other forms of rabble

plural

rabbles·

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 rabble

What does rabble mean?

rabble means "a disorderly crowd of people". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rabble?

rabble has 2 syllables: rab-ble. The stress falls on "rab". In IPA it is /ˈɹæbəl/.

What is another word for rabble?

Close synonyms include mob, rout, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail. 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 rabble a common word?

rabble 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.