treadle

Other forms of treadle

plural

treadles·

past tense

treadled·

present participle

treadling·

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 treadle

What does treadle mean?

treadle means "tread over". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in treadle?

treadle has 3 syllables: tre-a-dle. The stress falls on "tre".

What is another word for treadle?

Close synonyms include pedal, foot pedal, foot lever. 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 treadle a common word?

treadle 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.