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say it: SPAHR-kuhl
sparkle is a verb and noun meaning "reflect brightly". It is pronounced /ˈspɑɹkəl/ — SPAHR-kuhl. It carries 7 recorded senses.
reflect brightly
“Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside”
be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
“The musical performance sparkled”
“A scintillating conversation”
“his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall”
become bubbly or frothy or foaming
“The boiling soup was frothing”
“The river was foaming”
“sparkling water”
merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
“he had a sparkle in his eye”
“there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes”
the occurrence of a small flash or spark
the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sparkle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.