tussle

Other forms of tussle

plural

tussles·

past tense

tussled·

present participle

tussling·

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 tussle

What does tussle mean?

tussle means "fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tussle?

tussle has 2 syllables: tus-sle. The stress falls on "tus". In IPA it is /ˈtʌsəl/.

What is another word for tussle?

Close synonyms include scuffle, muss, hassle, scuffle, dogfight. 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 tussle a common word?

tussle 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.