wriggler

Other forms of wriggler

plural

wrigglers·

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 wriggler

What does wriggler mean?

wriggler means "one who can't stay still (especially a child)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wriggler?

wriggler has 2 syllables: wrig-gler. The stress falls on "wrig".

What is another word for wriggler?

Close synonyms include wiggler, squirmer, wiggler. 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 wriggler a common word?

wriggler 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.