rumple

Other forms of rumple

past tense

rumpled·

present participle

rumpling·

third person

rumples·

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 rumple

What does rumple mean?

rumple means "disturb the smoothness of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rumple?

rumple has 2 syllables: rum-ple. The stress falls on "rum". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌmpəl/.

What is another word for rumple?

Close synonyms include ruffle, ruffle up, mess up, pucker, cockle. 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 rumple a common word?

rumple 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.