unsnarl

Other forms of unsnarl

past tense

unsnarled·

present participle

unsnarling·

third person

unsnarls·

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 unsnarl

What does unsnarl mean?

unsnarl means "extricate from entanglement".

How many syllables are in unsnarl?

unsnarl has 2 syllables: un-snarl. The stress falls on "snarl".

What is another word for unsnarl?

Close synonyms include disentangle, straighten out. 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.

What is the opposite of unsnarl?

The recorded antonyms are snarl.

Is unsnarl a common word?

unsnarl 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.