tweedle

Other forms of tweedle

past tense

tweedled·

present participle

tweedling·

third person

tweedles·

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 tweedle

What does tweedle mean?

tweedle means "sing in modulation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tweedle?

tweedle has 2 syllables: twee-dle. The stress falls on "twee". In IPA it is /ˈtwidəl/.

What is another word for tweedle?

Close synonyms include chirp. 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 tweedle a common word?

tweedle 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.