faddle
verb
faddle is a verb meaning “To fiddle (play aimlessly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-D-D-L-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does faddle mean?
verb
- 1
To fiddle (play aimlessly).
- 2
UKdatedTo dote on.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of faddle
- faddles present, singular, he/she/it
- faddling participle, present
- faddled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faddle?
Faddle appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Where does faddle come from?
Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).