suckle

Other forms of suckle

past tense

suckled·

present participle

suckling·

third person

suckles·

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 suckle

What does suckle mean?

suckle means "suck milk from the mother's breasts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suckle?

suckle has 2 syllables: suc-kle. The stress falls on "suc". In IPA it is /ˈsʌkəl/.

What is another word for suckle?

Close synonyms include breastfeed, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate. 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 suckle a common word?

suckle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 suckle?

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