Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rimple

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rim-ple
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

verb

To wrinkle or crease.

American usage

Example Sentences

"The evening was fine, and the air so still, that it scarcely waved the light leaves of the trees around, or rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below."
"He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]"

Etymology

From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: rimpel, *hrimpele, *hrumpiljǭ, *hrimpaną

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

rimples (plural) rimples (present, singular) rimpling (participle, present) rimpled (participle, past) rimpled (past)

Frequently Paired Words

ramp ripple rumple

Rhymes With

simple pimple dimple wimple scrimple timple crimple limple

Questions

What does rimple mean?: A wrinkle.
Where does rimple come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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