roil

Other forms of roil

past tense

roiled·

present participle

roiling·

third person

roils·

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 roil

What does roil mean?

roil means "be agitated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roil?

roil has 1 syllable: roil. In IPA it is /ˈɹɔɪl/.

What is another word for roil?

Close synonyms include churn, boil, moil, rile. 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 roil a common word?

roil 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.