wriggly

Questions about wriggly

What does wriggly mean?

wriggly means "moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion".

How many syllables are in wriggly?

wriggly has 2 syllables and divides as wrig-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wriggly?

Close synonyms include wiggly, wriggling, writhing. 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 wriggly a common word?

wriggly 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.