wriggle

Other forms of wriggle

plural

wriggles·

past tense

wriggled·

present participle

wriggling·

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 wriggle

What does wriggle mean?

wriggle means "the act of wiggling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wriggle?

wriggle has 2 syllables: wrig-gle. The stress falls on "wrig". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪɡəl/.

What is another word for wriggle?

Close synonyms include wiggle, squirm, writhe, wrestle, worm. 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 wriggle a common word?

wriggle 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.