whirled
/(h)wɝld/verb, noun
whirled is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of whirl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-H-I-R-L-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does whirled mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of whirl
noun
- 1
Eye dialect spelling of world.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce whirled?
- UK /wɜːld/
- /ʍɜːld/
- US /(h)wɝld/
Whirled has one syllable (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).
Forms of whirled
- whirleds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is whirled?
Whirled appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 73,203rd 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).
Words people confuse with whirled
Sounds like: whorled, world (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).