shamble

Other forms of shamble

plural

shambles·

past tense

shambled·

present participle

shambling·

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 shamble

What does shamble mean?

shamble means "walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shamble?

shamble has 2 syllables: sham-ble. The stress falls on "sham". In IPA it is /ˈʃæmbəl/.

What is another word for shamble?

Close synonyms include shambling, shuffle, shuffling, shuffle, scuffle. 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 shamble a common word?

shamble 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.