taradiddle

Other forms of taradiddle

plural

taradiddles·

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 taradiddle

What does taradiddle mean?

taradiddle means "a trivial lie". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taradiddle?

taradiddle has 4 syllables: ta-ra-did-dle. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for taradiddle?

Close synonyms include fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, baloney. 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 taradiddle a common word?

taradiddle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.