Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teakettle

/ˈtiˌkɛtəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables: teaket-tle
IPA: /ˈtiˌkɛtəl/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.

verb

To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices."
"“Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”"
"Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove."
"The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me."
"They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs."

Etymology

From tea + kettle.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtiˌkɛtəl/

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

teakettles (plural) tea kettle (alternative) tea-kettle (alternative) teakettles (present, singular) teakettling (participle, present) teakettled (participle, past) teakettled (past)

Derived Forms

teakettler

Phrases

ass over teakettle arse over teakettle teakettle groom

Frequently Paired Words

tea teapot

Questions

How do you pronounce teakettle?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtiˌkɛtəl/.
What does teakettle mean?: A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
Where does teakettle come from?: From tea + kettle.

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