rigamarole

Questions about rigamarole

What does rigamarole mean?

rigamarole means "a set of confused and meaningless statements". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rigamarole?

rigamarole has 5 syllables: ri-ga-ma-ro-le. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for rigamarole?

Close synonyms include rigmarole, rigmarole. 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 rigamarole a common word?

rigamarole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.