Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English

Syllables: shuf-fle
IPA: /ˈʃʌfəl/

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.

noun

The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.

noun

An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

noun

A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.

noun

A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.

noun

A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

verb

To put in a random order.

verb

To change; modify the order of something.

Example Sentences

"He made a real mess of the last shuffle."
"The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle."
"The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World."
"Don't forget to shuffle the cards."
"You shuffle, and I'll deal."
"The data packets are shuffled before transmission."

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Inflected Forms

shuffles (plural) shuffles (present, singular) shuffling (participle, present) shuffled (participle, past) shuffled (past)

Derived Forms

deshuffle misshuffle reshuffle shufflable shuffleable shuffleability shuffleboard shufflepuck shuffler shufflewing shufflingly shuffly

Phrases

auto-shuffle Brixton shuffle double shuffle double-shuffle Fisher-Yates shuffle five-knuckle shuffle ghost note shuffle Kansas City shuffle

Synonyms

shamble scuff shambling shuffling make ruffle mix scuffle

Rhymes With

truffle reshuffle scuffle ruffle duffel kerfuffle muffle duffell kuffel snuffle buffle scruffle

Questions

How do you pronounce shuffle?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃʌfəl/.
What does shuffle mean?: The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
Where does shuffle come from?: Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

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