whorl

Other forms of whorl

plural

whorls·

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 whorl

What does whorl mean?

whorl means "a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whorl?

whorl has 1 syllable: whorl. In IPA it is /ˈwɝl/.

What is another word for whorl?

Close synonyms include coil, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet. 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 whorl a common word?

whorl 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.

What rhymes with whorl?

1 word rhymes with whorl. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.