rustle

1. 1.

   a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind

   Synonymsrustlingwhisperwhispering

   Broadernoise

Other forms of rustle

plural

rustles·

past tense

rustled·

present participle

rustling·

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 rustle

What does rustle mean?

rustle means "make a dry crackling sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rustle?

rustle has 2 syllables: rus-tle. The stress falls on "rus". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌsəl/.

What is another word for rustle?

Close synonyms include lift, rustling, whisper, whispering. 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 rustle a common word?

rustle 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.

What rhymes with rustle?

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