wile

Other forms of wile

plural

wiles·

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 wile

What does wile mean?

wile means "the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)".

How many syllables are in wile?

wile has 1 syllable: wile. In IPA it is /ˈwaɪl/.

What is another word for wile?

Close synonyms include trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, shenanigan. 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 wile a common word?

wile 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.

What rhymes with wile?

5 words rhyme with wile. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.