trundle

Other forms of trundle

plural

trundles·

past tense

trundled·

present participle

trundling·

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 trundle

What does trundle mean?

trundle means "a low bed to be slid under a higher bed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trundle?

trundle has 2 syllables: trun-dle. The stress falls on "trun". In IPA it is /ˈtɹʌndəl/.

What is another word for trundle?

Close synonyms include trundle bed, truckle bed, truckle. 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 trundle a common word?

trundle 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.