how to pronounce ripple

/ˈɹɪpəl/

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ripple is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of ripple in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to cause a ripple but to create a wave …”

meanings of ripple

verb:

To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
To propagate like a moving wave.
To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze.
To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
To shape into a series of ripples.

noun:

A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
A sound similar to that of undulating water.
An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.

name:

A surname.
A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8737).
A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3450).

ripple frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word ripple occurs in english on average 2.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.