tramel
noun
tramel is spelled T-R-A-M-E-L: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tramel means “A net over a river to catch fish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tramel is tramels.
How many letters and syllables are in tramel?
| Letters | 6: T-R-A-M-E-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tramel?
Tramel appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).
How do you pronounce tramel?
Tramel 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).
What rhymes with tramel?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tramel.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: martel, armlet, malter.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tramel
- tramels plural
- tramell
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tramel mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A net over a river to catch fish.
- 2
An instrument or device, sometimes of leather, more usually of rope, fitted to a horse's legs to regulate his motions and force him to amble.
- 3
obsoleteObsolete spelling of trammel.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tramel come from?
From French tramail (“net for catching fishes”), from Medieval Latin tremaculum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).