tangle

1. 1.

   a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

   “they carved their way through the tangle of vines”

   Broadernatural object

   Narrowerhairballshag
2. 2.

   something jumbled or confused

   “a tangle of government regulations”

   Synonymssnarlmaze

   Broaderperplexity

Other forms of tangle

plural

tangles·

past tense

tangled·

present participle

tangling·

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 tangle

What does tangle mean?

tangle means "force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tangle?

tangle has 2 syllables: tan-gle. The stress falls on "tan". In IPA it is /ˈtæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for tangle?

Close synonyms include embroil, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in. 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 tangle a common word?

tangle 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 tangle?

3 words rhyme with tangle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.