sprinkles

1. 1.

   bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream

   Synonymsjimmies

   Broaderchocolate candy

Other forms of sprinkles

plural

sprinkleses·

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 sprinkles

What does sprinkles mean?

sprinkles means "bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream".

How many syllables are in sprinkles?

sprinkles has 2 syllables: sprin-kles. The stress falls on "sprin". In IPA it is /ˈspɹɪŋkəlz/.

What is another word for sprinkles?

Close synonyms include jimmies. 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 sprinkles a common word?

sprinkles 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.