sprinkle

1. 1.

   a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby

   Synonymsscatteringsprinkling

   Broadershower
2. 2.

   the act of sprinkling or splashing water

   “baptized with a sprinkling of holy water”

   “a sparge of warm water over the malt”

   Synonymssprinklingsparge

   Broaderwatering

Other forms of sprinkle

plural

sprinkles·

past tense

sprinkled·

present participle

sprinkling·

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 sprinkle

What does sprinkle mean?

sprinkle means "distribute loosely". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sprinkle?

sprinkle has 2 syllables: sprin-kle. The stress falls on "sprin". In IPA it is /ˈspɹɪŋkəl/.

What is another word for sprinkle?

Close synonyms include scatter, dot, dust, disperse, splash. 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 sprinkle a common word?

sprinkle 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.