giggles
noun, verb
giggles is a noun meaning “An attack of uncontrolled giggling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-I-G-G-L-E-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears 2.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does giggles mean?
noun
- 1
An attack of uncontrolled giggling.
She was seized with a bad case of the giggles.
- 2
plural of giggle
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of giggle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce giggles?
Giggles has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is giggles?
Giggles appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Giggles in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense attack of giggling:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fou rire |
| German | Lachkrampf, Lachanfall, Lachflash |
| Spanish | ataque de risa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.