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raddle

/ˈɹædəl/noun, verb

raddle is a noun meaning “A red ochre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-D-D-L-E, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of raddle is raddles.

What does raddle mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A red ochre.

  2. 2

    A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

  3. 3

    A hedge or fence made with raddles.

  4. 4

    An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

verb

  1. 1

    To mark with raddle; to daub something red.

  2. 2

    To interweave or twist together.

  3. 3

    To do work in a slovenly way.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce raddle?

  • /ˈɹædəl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-raddle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of raddle

  • raddles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • raddling participle, present
  • raddled participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is raddle?

Raddle appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).

Raddle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishalmagre (red ochre), almagrar, enalmagrar (mark with raddle)

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.

Where does raddle come from?

From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).