tickle

1. 1.

   a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking

   Broadercutaneous sensation
2. 2.

   the act of tickling

   Synonymsticklingtitillation

   Broadertouch

Other forms of tickle

plural

tickles·

past tense

tickled·

present participle

tickling·

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 tickle

What does tickle mean?

tickle means "touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tickle?

tickle has 2 syllables: tic-kle. The stress falls on "tic". In IPA it is /ˈtɪkəl/.

What is another word for tickle?

Close synonyms include titillate, vellicate, thrill, vibrate, tickling. 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 tickle a common word?

tickle 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.