wheedle

Other forms of wheedle

past tense

wheedled·

present participle

wheedling·

third person

wheedles·

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 wheedle

What does wheedle mean?

wheedle means "influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering".

How many syllables are in wheedle?

wheedle has 2 syllables and divides as whee-dle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wheedle?

Close synonyms include cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk. 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 wheedle a common word?

wheedle 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.