jingle

jingle is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
2. intransitive verb. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
3. transitive verb. To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
4. noun. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
5. noun. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
6. noun. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
7. noun. a comic verse of irregular measure

   "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

   Synonyms: doggerel

8. noun. a metallic sound

   "the jingle of coins"

   "the jangle of spurs"

   Synonyms: jangle

9. verb. make a sound typical of metallic objects

   "The keys were jingling in his pocket"

   Synonyms: jangle

Synonyms

doggerel, jangle

Common word forms

jingled, jingler, jingles, jingling

Words from these letters

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