ruffled

Other forms of ruffled

comparative

ruffledder·

superlative

ruffleddest·

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 ruffled

What does ruffled mean?

ruffled means "shaken into waves or undulations as by wind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruffled?

ruffled has 2 syllables: ruf-fled. The stress falls on "ruf". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌfəld/.

What is another word for ruffled?

Close synonyms include rippled, frilled, frilly. 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 ruffled a common word?

ruffled 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.

What rhymes with ruffled?

1 word rhymes with ruffled. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.