Word.ws English Dictionary

wharl

wharl noun: a rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.

Noun

wharl (plural wharls)

  1. A rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.
    Synonyms:
    burr

Synonyms of wharl

Forms of wharl

pluralwharls

Origin of wharl

Unknown. Perhaps onomatopoeic.

Questions about wharl

What does wharl mean?
Wharl means a rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.
What part of speech is wharl?
Wharl is a noun.
What is the plural of wharl?
The plural of wharl is wharls.

Words near wharl in the dictionary

  1. wharfs
  2. wharfside
  3. wharfsides
  4. wharfward
  5. wharfwards
  6. wharl
  7. wharling
  8. wharls
  9. Wharmby
  10. Wharmbys
  11. wharncliffe

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wharl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wharl.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wharl. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.