riffle

1. 1.

   a small wave on the surface of a liquid

   Synonymsrippleripplingwavelet

   Broaderwave
2. 2.

   shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners

   Broadershuffle

Other forms of riffle

plural

riffles·

past tense

riffled·

present participle

riffling·

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 riffle

What does riffle mean?

riffle means "twitch or flutter". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in riffle?

riffle has 2 syllables: rif-fle. The stress falls on "rif". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪfəl/.

What is another word for riffle?

Close synonyms include flick, ruffle, flick, flip, thumb. 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 riffle a common word?

riffle 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.