ruddle

Other forms of ruddle

plural

ruddles·

past tense

ruddled·

present participle

ruddling·

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 ruddle

What does ruddle mean?

ruddle means "twist or braid together, interlace". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruddle?

ruddle has 2 syllables: rud-dle. The stress falls on "rud". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌdəl/.

What is another word for ruddle?

Close synonyms include raddle, reddle, raddle. 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 ruddle a common word?

ruddle 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.