ripple

Other forms of ripple

plural

ripples·

past tense

rippled·

present participle

rippling·

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 ripple

What does ripple mean?

ripple means "a small wave on the surface of a liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ripple?

ripple has 2 syllables: rip-ple. The stress falls on "rip". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪpəl/.

What is another word for ripple?

Close synonyms include rippling, riffle, wavelet, ruffle, riffle. 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 ripple a common word?

ripple 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.