wobble

1. 1.

   an unsteady rocking motion

   Broadermovement

   Narrowershimmy

Other forms of wobble

plural

wobbles·

past tense

wobbled·

present participle

wobbling·

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 wobble

What does wobble mean?

wobble means "move unsteadily". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wobble?

wobble has 2 syllables: wob-ble. The stress falls on "wob". In IPA it is /ˈwɑbəl/.

What is another word for wobble?

Close synonyms include coggle, careen, shift, tilt, shimmy. 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 wobble a common word?

wobble 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.