waffle

Other forms of waffle

plural

waffles·

past tense

waffled·

present participle

waffling·

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 waffle

What does waffle mean?

waffle means "pancake batter baked in a waffle iron". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waffle?

waffle has 2 syllables: waf-fle. The stress falls on "waf". In IPA it is /ˈwɑfəl/.

What is another word for waffle?

Close synonyms include hesitate, waver. 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 waffle a common word?

waffle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.