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say it: RAT-uhl
rattle is a noun and verb meaning "a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
“the death rattle”
a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
shake and cause to make a rattling noise
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rattle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.