trickle
/ˈtɹɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle."
- "The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night."
- "The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud."
- "The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound."
- "Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent."
- "The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end."
Etymology
From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le. For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.