scrawl

Other forms of scrawl

plural

scrawls·

past tense

scrawled·

present participle

scrawling·

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 scrawl

What does scrawl mean?

scrawl means "poor handwriting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrawl?

scrawl has 1 syllable: scrawl. In IPA it is /ˈskɹɔl/.

What is another word for scrawl?

Close synonyms include scribble, scratch, cacography, scribble. 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 scrawl a common word?

scrawl 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.