shuffle

1. 1.

   the act of mixing cards haphazardly

   Synonymsshufflingmake

   Broaderreordering

   Narrowerreshuffleriffle

   Part ofcard game
2. 2.

   walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

   “from his shambling I assumed he was very old”

   Synonymsshambleshamblingshuffling

   Broaderwalk

Other forms of shuffle

plural

shuffles·

past tense

shuffled·

present participle

shuffling·

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 shuffle

What does shuffle mean?

shuffle means "walk by dragging one's feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shuffle?

shuffle has 2 syllables: shuf-fle. The stress falls on "shuf". In IPA it is /ˈʃʌfəl/.

What is another word for shuffle?

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

shuffle 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 shuffle?

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